Weakly ascending herb or subshrub to 50 cm high, glabrous apart from flowers. Branchlets terete; decurrent leaf bases indistinct. Leaves sessile, linear to elliptic or obovate, 7–28 mm long, 0.5–7.5 mm wide, entire to slightly crenate. Inflorescence 1 (–3)-flowered; bracts at base of pedicels, 1.5–10 mm long; pedicels 2–10 mm long. Sepals deltate to ovate, 2–6 mm long, smaller to just longer than petals, green to purple; abaxial surface glabrous. Petals 3–7 mm long, white to pink; abaxial surface glabrous. Stamens 4–8; filaments glabrous or pilose, eglandular or glandular; anthers minutely apiculate or not. Ovary and style glabrous; stigma minute.
Grows in seasonally wet wallum, heath, sedgeland and woodland communities on a variety of substrates.
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