Erect shrubs 1.8-6 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish to ferruginous, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately [to densely?] hairy. Leaves linear-ovate to narrowly ovate to elliptic to oblong, 2-9 cm long, usually 3-10 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, spreading to suberect, straight or occasionally slightly falcate, innocuous, concolorous to strongly discolorous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to moderately hairy when mature, smooth to slightly scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-20-flowered; rachis 0-18 cm long. Flowers mostly subtended by leaves; pedicels mostly 1.5-10 mm long, erect, moderately hairy; tepals 9-13 mm long, shortly caudate, moderately hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovule 1.
Grows in dry sclerophyll forest to rainforest margins in wet sclerophyll forest, on volcanic or sedimentary substrata, from 500 to 1000 m alt.
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