Xylomelum angustifolium Kippist ex Meisn.

Tall shrub or small tree to 7 m, often mallee-like. Leaves with petiole 4-12 mm long; lamina linear to linear-lanceolate, aristate, 8.5-13 cm long; margin entire (juvenile leaves 2-or 3-toothed apically); apex often uncinate. Conflorescence 5-8 cm long, pale brown-pubescent. Tepals 7 mm long, creamy white, pale brown-pubescent. Ovary pale brown-pilose; pollen presenter clavate, often pubescent. Fruit ±ovoid, 5.5-8.5 cm long, pale grey or whitish, pubescent or velvety. Seeds 4.5-7 cm long, mottled brown and cream.

Grows on sandplains.