Undershrub without stilt roots; rhizome short, clonal; roots clustered, wiry, sand binding. Stems to 50 cm long, with many short lateral branches. Leaves: lamina 4.2–14.5 mm long, 0.4–1.0 mm wide, glabrous, margin glabrous or scabrous (occasionally pilose), apex obtuse and with a pungent mucro 0.3–0.8 mm long; sheath with branched trichomes on margin. Bracts 10.7–12.2 mm long, 1.4–2.1 mm wide, white at base, papery, brown median stripe in upper half, margin glabrous, apex without vestigial leaf lamina. Perianth: tube 8.9–10.2 mm long, pilose in lower half; throat glabrous; lobes chartaceous, 8.7–12.6 mm long, 2.0–3.0 mm wide, blue with bronze margins, fading to white, pilose on abaxial side, apex acuminate. Staminal filaments 1.3–4.2 mm long. Anthers 5.1–8.3 × 0.6–1.3 mm, apex incurved, yellow, turning orange-red with age, pores below apex. Style 11.4–11.9 mm long, equal to or exceeding anthers. Seeds not seen.
Occurring in a wide range of vegetation associations and habitats including kwongan heath, Allocasuarina woodlands, marri woodlands, jarrah woodlands, and sometimes in swampy heath, usually in sandy soils, sometimes over laterite.
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