Erect shrubs to trees 1.6-4 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs ferruginous, mostly antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves narrowly elliptic to ovate to obovate, 2.5-11 cm long, 6-19 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, spreading, straight, innocuous, slightly to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, mostly glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 1-11-flowered; rachis 0-5.5 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 2-5 mm long, erect, sparsely to moderately hairy; tepals 10-13 mm long, shortly caudate, sparsely to moderately hairy on outside. Ovary moderately to densely covered in ferruginous hairs; ovule 1.
Grows in dry to wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in soils derived from metasediments, from 400 to 600 m alt.
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