Clonal perennial; rhizome short, ‘looping’, with sand-binding roots. Stems to 35 cm long, with many short lateral branches usually crowded at the apex. Leaves: lamina 5.2–13.0 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, glabrous, margin finely scabrous, apex acute with a mucro 0.3 mm long; sheath with short, branched trichomes on margin, glabrous otherwise. Bracts 9.6–11.2 mm long, 1.3–2.5 mm wide, papery, white to pale brown with a pale brown apex; outer bracts reddish brown; margin pilose; apex with green vestigial leaf lamina 1.5–2.5 mm long, 0.4–0.5 mm wide. Perianth: tube 9.4–10.2 mm long, pilose in lower one-fifth, not prominently costate when dry; lobes 12.8–16.5 mm long, 2.6–4.7 mm wide, blue-red fading to pale blue-red, pilose on abaxial side, apex acuminate; margin opaque; throat with tangle of short, barbed hairs. Staminal filaments 2.8–3.7 mm long. Anthers 4.1–5.8 mm long, 0.7–1.2 mm diam., 3 slightly shorter, yellow, not turning orange-red with age; pores terminal. Style 12.5–13.8 mm long, exceeding anthers. Seeds not seen.
Grows in sparse woodland in sand with Agonis, Allocasuarina or Eucalyptus spp., often near granite outcrops and in open kwongan with low Proteaceae and Myrtaceae heath.
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