Dense shrub or rarely a small tree to 4 m high, sometimes root-suckering; hairs on branchlets with rays to 0.25 mm long. Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblong, (16–)35–52 mm long, 4–8 mm wide; margins serrate, apex truncate to slightly retuse, base more or less cuneate or attenuate. Pedicels 2–7 mm long, with a sparse to moderately dense pubescence. Sepals c. 0.5 mm long, abaxial surface with scattered stellate hairs. Petals white to pale pink, 4–5 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
GipP, HSF, HNF, Strz, VAlp. Grows in wet sclerophyll forests of western Gippsland, between Warburton and the Baw Baws, and in the Strzelecki Range.
