Erect to spreading shrubs 0.4-2.8 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong, 2-6 cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, flat, suberect to erect, twisted through 180° to 6 complete turns, innocuous, concolorous or with paler margins, usually slightly to strongly glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-5-flowered; rachis 0-25 mm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 3-6 mm long, erect, glabrous to moderately hairy; tepals 8-11 mm long, acuminate to mucronate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.
Grows in heath, mallee heath and mallee woodland, in yellow or white sand or sandy loam, often over laterite.
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