Shrub 0.5-1.5 m tall. Side branches few, 10-20 cm long. Indumentum of bifid trichomes. Leaves linear and terete to flat and narrowly obovate, 2-9 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, pale green, slightly swollen and yellow at base, erect, rigid, crowded, curved, acute. Conflorescence single or raceme-or panicle-like; peduncle 2-8 mm long, with 2-3 bracts at base, 1-several above. Flowers pale yellow, strongly fragrant, with sparse, bifid trichomes; perianth c. 5 mm long; pedicel slender, 10-12 mm long; torus prominent with broad gland. Ovary densely tomentose with bifid trichomes; style filiform, spreading sharply. Fruit pendant or deflexed, smooth or slightly ribbed along suture.
Grows primarily in sandy soil on ridges, slopes, or lowlands in wallum or similar shrublands, and in low open woodland.
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