Under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 it is listed as critically endangered.

[1] It is only known from five discreet locations with approximately 7,000 individual plants remaining.

The angular to terete branches are densely covered with white spreading hairs.

[1] It is endemic to a small area in north eastern Queensland around Herberton, around Mount Emerald found to the south-west of Walkamin and at Stannary Hills.

It is situated on steep rocky slopes, with an altitude of 780 to 880 m (2,560 to 2,890 ft) as a part of Eucalyptus woodland communities.