Erect to spreading shrubs 0.3-1.8 m tall. Hairs greyish to ferruginous, appressed to patent. Young branchlets densely hairy. Leaves spathulate to oblanceolate to linear, 1.5-9 cm long, 1.6-20 mm wide, flat or concave with 3 prominent, parallel veins on undersurface and with thickened (and sometimes undulate) margins, or compressed-subterete with 6 prominent, parallel veins, often recurved or slightly incurved, spreading to erect, straight to slightly falcate, twisted through 0-2 complete turns, innocuous, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent to sparsely hairy when mature, scabrous to scaberulous. Inflorescence anauxotelic, 1-4-flowered; rachis 0-1 mm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 1-3.5 mm long, erect, densely hairy; tepals 8.5-16 mm long, acute to acuminate, densely hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse to acute, 0.3-3.5 mm long, recurved through 45-180°. Ovary densely hairy.
Grows in low heath or mallee heath to mallee woodland, in white or yellow sand or loam, often over laterite.
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