Erect to spreading shrubs 0.4-1.8 m tall. Hairs whitish or greyish to tawny, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets densely hairy. Leaves linear, 3.5-12 cm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, ±terete, usually slightly incurved, spreading to erect, straight, pungent, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrous to moderately hairy when mature, scabrous. Inflorescence anauxotelic, 1-15-flowered; rachis 0-45 mm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 0-6 mm long, spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 7-12 mm long, acute, sparsely to moderately hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, to 0.6 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Drupes not known.
Grows in heath, in sand, laterite, weathered granite or red loam.
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