Rootstock small; roots fibrous. Leaves perennial, c. 5-42, narrowly lanceolate to ±linear, ±flat or channelled below to ±terete above, ridged on adaxial surface, 5-43 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide; hairs short, erect and sparse to long, ±appressed and dense. Inflorescence a single, 4-50-flowered umbel; scape 8-42 cm long, basally hirsute to glabrous; pedicels 5-35 mm long, articulated below middle. Perianth segments 9-15 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, c. 3 mm wide. Petals elliptic, c. 6-7 mm wide; fimbriae c. 3 mm long. Stamens 3; anthers 5 mm long, slightly curved and twisted; filaments equal. Style curved, c. 6 mm long, declinate opposite anthers. Seeds cylindrical, 2 mm long, 1 mm diam.; aril stalked, yellow.
Grows in banksia low forest in sand, in inland sandplain vegetation in deep white sands, and with Eucalyptus staeri in dark, humus-rich sand.
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