Erect, woody shrub to 1 m high, ± glabrous apart from flowers. Branchlets slightly glandular-verrucose; decurrent leaf bases prominent. Leaves usually bipinnate, some-times tripinnate, 5–11-foliolate, 11–40 mm long, 5–40 mm wide; petiole and rachis segments 3–16 mm long; leaflets linear to linear-elliptic, rarely elliptic, 1.5–15 mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide. Inflorescences axillary, 3–20+-flowered; peduncle and pedicels 2–6 mm long. Sepals deltate to broadly ovate, 1–1.25 mm long, glabrous or minutely ciliate. Petals 3–4 mm long, not obviously glandular, glabrous, white or pink. Stamens: filaments pilose, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anthers glabrous, with erect apiculum. Ovary glabrous; style pilose; stigma minute.
Grows in heath or dry sclerophyll forest or woodland in rocky areas on mountain tops, ridges, rocky slopes and outcrops.