Erect to spreading shrubs 1-2.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs tawny to ferruginous, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, 3-6 cm long, 10-25 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, sometimes slightly incurved, suberect, straight, twisted through 0-90°, innocuous, slightly discolorous, not glaucous, moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to moderately hairy when mature, scabrous. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 1-12-flowered; rachis 0-11 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 10-14 mm long, caudate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Ovary densely hairy; hairs greyish to ferruginous; ovule 1.
Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest, in stony or sandy to loamy soils derived from granite, from 900 to 1100 m alt.
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