Erect to decumbent, multi-stemmed shrub 0.1-1.8 m tall. Young stems moderately to densely covered in minute papillae, glabrous. Leaves narrowly to broadly oblanceolate to spathulate to cuneate in outline with recurved margins, shortly petiolate, acute to mucronate or rarely emarginate, 1-6 cm long, 2-22 mm wide, glabrous except for pubescence on upper surface of petiole; primary lobes 0-5, to 12 mm long, each with 0-3 secondary lobes. Inflorescence 15-60-flowered; axis glabrous to moderately pubescent; peduncle 1.3-10 cm long; rachis 5-45 mm long. Flowers white to pale pink except for red ovary; pedicels spreading, 5-8 mm long, glabrous to moderately pubescent; tepals spreading, 2.5-4 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 2.5-3.5 mm long. Fruit pendulous, 10-17 mm long, red.
Mostly found from 1000 to 1500 m alt., but occasionally as low as 400 m in the north-west. Most commonly in alpine to subalpine heath, rarely in forest or alpine herbfield, often in poorly drained sites, mostly in soil derived from dolerite, but occasionally on quartzite or basalt.
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