Erect to spreading shrubs 0.2-1 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish to ferruginous, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic to elliptic to lanceolate to oblanceolate to narrowly spathulate to spathulate, mostly 2-6 cm long, mostly 4-15 mm wide, flat, with slightly recurved to recurved margins, sometimes incurved, spreading to suberect, straight, innocuous, concolorous to slightly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature (but denser on margins), glabrescent to sparsely hairy when mature (on abaxial surface), smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic or anauxotelic, 1-25-flowered; rachis 0-13 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels mostly 1-3 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 10-15 mm long, apiculate to shortly caudate, moderately hairy outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
Grows in dry to wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in various metamorphic and igneous substrata, common on the eastern side of the tablelands but also occurring occasionally down to the foot of the eastern escarpment, from 190 m to 1300 m alt.
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