 There is an outlying population in the vicinity of Torrington in the New England region.It occurs naturally from sea level to and is found on low-nutrient sandstone soils in heathland and dry sclerophyll woodland, particularly along ridges or tops of hills.Typical woodland trees it is associated with include the scribbly gums "Eucalyptus haemastoma" and "E. sclerophylla", yertchuk ("E. consideniana"), yellow bloodwood ("Corymbia eximia"), red bloodwood ("C. gummifera") and smooth-barked apple ("Angophora costata"), and heathland plants such as rusty banksia ("Banksia oblongifolia"), swamp banksia ("B. paludosa"), mountain devil ("Lambertia formosa"), conesticks ("Petrophile pulchella"), tick bush ("Kunzea ambigua"), forest oak ("Allocasuarina torulosa") and "Hakea laevipes".