Erect to spreading shrubs 0.2-1.5 m tall. Bark smooth, sometimes flaky towards base. Hairs greyish, antrorsely spreading to patent or curly. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly spathulate to linear, 5-15 cm long, 2.5-18 mm wide, flat, usually with recurved margins, often slightly incurved, suberect to erect, straight to slightly falcate, innocuous, sometimes slightly glaucous, glabrous to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 10-90-flowered; rachis 2-45 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 5-25 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9-15 mm long, obtuse to acuminate, moderately to densely hairy on outside; ventral tepal deeply saccate. Anthers yellow with white tips; appendage obtuse, 0.8-3 mm long, not recurved.
Grows in Eucalyptus forest to woodland or Banksia forest to woodland or mallee heath to low heath, in grey or yellow sand, often over laterite.
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