Erect to decumbent shrubs 20-50 cm tall. Bark poorly developed. Hairs greyish, antrorsely spreading to patent. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves linear, 10-25 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, subterete and grooved on upper surface, usually strongly incurved, spreading to erect, straight, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous, smooth. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-8-flowered; rachis 0-2.3 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels 1-3 mm long, erect to spreading, glabrous; tepals 8-10 mm long, obtuse to apiculate, glabrous on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.
Grows in heath to dry sclerophyll forest, in siliceous soils derived from coastal sand, granite, sandstone and sandy alluvium, from sea level to 1050 m alt.
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