Spreading to prostrate shrubs 0.3-1.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, 10-20 mm long, 1.2-3.5 mm wide, flat, with flat to recurved margins, usually suberect, straight, innocuous, concolorous to slightly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth but with prominent, longitudinal wrinkles abaxially when dried. Inflorescence auxotelic, 1-12-flowered; rachis 0-7.5 cm long. Flowers subtended by reduced leaves or leaves; pedicels 2-3.5 mm long, spreading, glabrous; tepals 9-10 mm long, apiculate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
Grows in dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in sandy, siliceous soils, usually derived from Narrabeen Sandstone, at 600-1200 m alt.
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