Erect to spreading shrubs 0.5-5 m tall. Bark smooth, usually fissured at base. Hairs greyish, appressed to patent or curly. Young branchlets glabrous to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 4-21 cm long, 1-3.2 mm wide, compressed, with 3-5 prominent, parallel veins on both surfaces to trigonous to subterete and grooved underneath, sometimes slightly to strongly incurved, spreading to erect, straight to slightly falcate, innocuous, sometimes glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-25-flowered; rachis 0-10 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 3.5-20 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9.5-14 mm long, acuminate to apiculate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside; ventral tepal shallowly saccate. Anthers white; appendage obtuse, 0.8-2 mm long, not recurved.
Grows in shrub-thicket communities dominated by Allocasuarina campestris and/or Acacia spp., or in heath or mallee heath, in sand to loam, often over laterite.
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