Stiff shrub 1.5–3 m high, glabrous except for young shoots and flowers; bark grey. Leaves alternate, crowded, spreading, elliptic, narrowly ovate or ovate, 4–13 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, flat, tip more or less blunt, oil glands obscure; veins 3–5; petiole c. 1–2 mm long. Inflorescence a cylindric spike c. 3–5 cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide; axis glabrous to glabrescent, growing on into a leafy shoot. Flowers 1 per bract; stamens 3–5 per bundle, green, claw 3–4.5 mm long, free parts of filaments c. 10–15.5 mm long. Capsules 5–8 mm long, 9–12 mm wide, papery, sepals usually persistent. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
VVP, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, OtR. Native to south-west Western Australia.
Occasionally cultivated, known in Victoria from a few scattered populations that have become naturalised around Anglesea
