Spreading to decumbent shrubs 0.3-1.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish to tawny, patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic to lanceolate to narrowly spathulate to spathulate, 5-14 mm long, 0.7-5 mm wide, convex, with recurved to revolute margins, slightly to strongly recurved, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, slightly discolorous, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent to moderately hairy when mature, scabrous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-10-flowered; rachis 0-2 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 10 mm long, acute, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Ovary densely hairy; hairs greyish to tawny; ovule 1.
Grows in dry sclerophyll eucalypt woodland to forest, in sandy to stony soils derived from sandstone, from near sea level to 600 m alt.
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