Erect to prostrate shrubs to 2 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs whitish or greyish, mostly antrorsely spreading to patent. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves broadly elliptic to ovate to broadly ovate, 3-9 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, convex, with recurved to revolute margins, usually recurved towards tip, spreading at base, straight, innocuous, slightly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, sparsely so when mature, scabrous. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-14-flowered; rachis 0-3 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous to moderately hairy; tepals 8-10 mm long, acute to apiculate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in sandy to stony soils derived from sandstone or other siliceous rocks, from 600 to 1200 m alt.
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