Erect shrub, 0.4–0.7 m tall, 0.3–0.6 m wide, glabrous. Leaves opposite, decussate, punctate, aromatic, laterally compressed,7–12 mm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, 0.8–1.3 mm thick, linear, mucronate, petiolate, pale green; blade in side view incurved linear to narrow-elliptic; petiole 0.5–0.8 mm long. Flowering branchlets undifferentiated, with (2–)3–4 flowers held erect in leaf axils at branchlet apex. Inflorescence a monad; peduncles 0.9–1.3 mm long; bracteoles caducous, 4–7 mm long, pale yellow–green, slightly glaucous. Hypanthium cylindrical,5-costate, smooth between the ribs, glabrous, 4.5–6.5 mm long, pale yellow–green. Sepals5, 3–4 mm long, pale yellow turning bright red with age, the apex distally laciniate with (2–)3(–4) slender processes. Petals 5, pale yellow, broadly obovate, obtuse, 2.0–2.5 mm long, the margin entire. Stamens10; filaments ~0.7 mm long; anthers globose, basifixed, yellow. Staminodes 10, alternating with the stamens, distinctly adnate to the adjacent antepetalous stamen. Style 8–11 mm long, exceeding the hypanthium by 4–6 mm at anthesis, minutely hirsute below the papillose stigma, pale yellow. Ovary unilocular; placenta sessile, axile-basal, bearing 7–8(–10) ovules. Fruit a dry, indehiscent nut, brown.
Distribution
Currently known from a single population ~10 km west of Tenterfield on Kildare Road.
Habitat and ecology
- Plants grow in skeletal, sandy soil among crevices of a granite outcrop. Associated species include Eucalyptus campanulata, E. scoparia, Boronia ledifolia s.l. ,Hibbertia acicularis s.l. and Lomandra longifolia.
Regional distribution and habitat
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