Spreading shrubs 1-5 m tall. Bark smooth, usually fissured at base. Hairs greyish, appressed to patent or curly. Young branchlets glabrous to densely hairy. Leaves linear to linear-spathulate, 6-15 cm long, 2.5-8 mm wide, flat, often slightly incurved, straight to slightly falcate, innocuous, sometimes slightly glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 4-25-flowered; rachis 0.3-10 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 4-10 mm long, erect to spreading, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 11-16 mm long, acuminate to apiculate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside; ventral tepal shallowly saccate. Anthers white; appendage obtuse, 1-2 mm long, not recurved.
In heath and Allocasuarina and/or Acacia thicket or Eucalyptus woodland, in yellow sand or sandy loam, often over laterite.
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