Erect to spreading shrubs 0.2-2.5 m tall. Hairs greyish or whitish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong to oblanceolate to narrowly spathulate, 2-7.5 cm long, 0.8-10 mm wide, flat with 3-13 prominent, parallel veins on both surfaces or compressed to subterete with 8 prominent, parallel veins, often slightly incurved, suberect to erect, usually straight, twisted through 90° to 1.5 complete turns, innocuous, sometimes slightly to strongly glaucous, glabrous to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth to moderately scaberulous. Inflorescence mostly auxotelic, 1-10-flowered; rachis 0-6 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 4-17 mm long, erect, sparsely to moderately hairy; tepals 7.5-15 mm long, acuminate to apiculate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 0.4-1 mm long, recurved through 45-90°. Ovary glabrous.
Grows in heath, mallee heath, Acacia /Allocasuarina /Eucalyptus thicket or in Eucalyptus woodland or dry sclerophyll forest, usually in sand to loam, often over laterite or gravel.
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