Erect, woody shrub to 2.5 m high. Branches with obvious glands, sometimes verrucose, glabrous to pubescent; decurrent leaf bases present. Leaves simple, pinnate or bipinnate, 1–9-foliolate, 4–35 mm long, 2–30 mm wide; petiole 2–16 mm long; rachis segments 3–7 mm long; leaflets narrowly cuneate to cuneate or narrowly elliptic to elliptic or ovate or obovate, 2–13 mm long, 1–6 mm wide, strongly conduplicate or flat, often divided into 3 lobes at apex. Inflorescences axillary, 1–9+-flowered; peduncle and pedicels 0.5–8 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate, 1.5–3 mm long, glabrous to densely puberulous. Petals 3.5–6.5 mm long, glabrous to sparsely puberulous, white to pink. Stamens: filaments pilose, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anther apiculum glabrous or with few hairs. Ovary glabrous or with few hairs; style pilose; stigma minute.
Usually found growing on and around sandstone and granite outcrops in eucalypt woodland or forest, or heath or shrubland, often in exposed areas.
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