Erect or rounded shrub to 2.5 m, rarely a dwarf or prostrate plant to 1.5 m diam., densely woolly-or granular-tomentose throughout with non-glandular, branched hairs and smaller glandular hairs, grey-green to whitish. Leaves broadly ovate, orbicular, ovate or elliptic, occasionally obovate to narrowly ovate, mostly 10–30 mm long, 5–15 mm wide, the juvenile leaves larger; petiole to 5 mm long or very short. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 2–3–flowered clusters, sometimes forming leafy spikes; pedicels absent or up to 2.5 mm long. Calyx 4.5–9.5 mm long; lobes 3–6.5 mm long. Corolla 7–13 mm long; tube abruptly spreading towards limb, deep greenish-yellow with purple striations, occasionally black; lobes 3–6.5 mm long, purple-black, sometimes with narrow white margin. Stamens exserted. Capsule ovoid-ellipsoid to subglobular, 4–7 mm long. Seeds 2.5–3.3 mm long.
Occurs onsand dunes, sand plains, or sandy rises in low-lying saline areas, usually inwoodland, mallee, shrubland or scrub-heath.
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