Erect shrubs or trees 3-9 m tall. Bark smooth on upper branches, finely fissured at base. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 6-17 cm long, 8-22 mm wide, flat, with slightly recurved margins, spreading to suberect, straight or often falcate, twisted through 0-90°, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature (but much denser on margins), glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, mostly 6-22-flowered; rachis 3-16 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 3-5 mm long, erect, moderately hairy; tepals 9-12 mm long, acute to acuminate, moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.
Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll forest, usually in association with Banksia integrifolia or Eucalyptus pilularis , exclusively on stabilised coastal sand dunes, below 20 m alt.
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