Erect, woody shrub to 1.5 m high, glabrous apart from flowers. Branchlets not obviously glandular; decurrent leaf bases absent. Leaves usually 3-foliolate though simple and 5-foliolate leaves also present; petiole 2–15 mm long; pinnate leaves 3–5-foliolate, 6–38 mm long, 5–40 mm wide, with rachis segments 3–15 mm long; simple leaves and leaflets linear to terete, usually falcate, 3–25 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, entire, channelled above, concolorous. Inflorescences axillary, 1–3-flowered; peduncles and pedicels 2–9 mm long. Sepals narrowly triangular, 3.5–4 mm long, glabrous. Petals 4–8 mm long, pink; abaxial surface pubescent along margins. Stamens: filaments pilose, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anthers not apiculate. Ovary glabrous; style pilose; stigma minute.
Found in coastal areas and on sand islands, in seasonally flooded areas of wallum, closed heathland and occasionally in woodland on wet sand.
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