Shrub or small tree, 3–10(–20) m high; bark papery or hard; branchlets pubescent. Leaves alternate, sessile, ovate to broadly ovate, 4–25 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, often twisted or concave above, apex tapered to a pungent point, margins ciliate, faintly 15–30-veined, oil glands sometimes distinct. Inflorescence a few- to many-flowered dense spike, 1–2 cm long, to c. 2.5 cm wide; axis pubescent, growing on into a leafy shoot. Flowers usually in triads; bracts leaf-like; stamens 12–26 per bundle, white, claw 3–5.5 mm long, free part of filaments c. 4–6 mm long. Capsules 2–3.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, sepals somewhat persistent. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
Wim, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, DunT, NIS, HSF. Native to coastal areas of Qld and NSW.
Known in Victoria from a sparingly established population at Puckapunyal and isolated records along the Yarra River
