A small population of this species has been discovered in the Northern Lofty region in the Burra Gorge area on rocky hillside in open scrub vegetation. Associated with <I>Eucalyptus socialis</I> and <I>Callitris preissii</I>. Soils; hard alkaline red duplex. Rainfall 400-500 mm. Also Little Desert, western Vic. The first collection in S.A. was by C. D. Boomsma at Burra, as recently as September, 1966.