Erect to spreading shrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, mostly appressed. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves linear-oblong, 1-4.5 cm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, usually flat, with recurved margins, sometimes recurved towards tip, mostly spreading, sometimes slightly falcate, innocuous, strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-40-flowered; rachis 0-25 cm long. Flowers subtended by leaves; pedicels 7-12 mm long, recurved, glabrous; tepals 8.5-11 mm long, shortly caudate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.
Grows in dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in laterite, on Hawkesbury Sandstone or in alluvial sand below 60 m alt.
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