Herb, annual, with slender, branching taproot, and dense, soft, spreading or retrorse, eglandular hairs 2–3 mm long. Stem erect or ascending, 10–12 cm high. Leaves sessile, obovate-spathulate to ovate-elliptic, ± obtuse, 10–14 mm long, 3–7 mm wide. Inflorescence profuse, ± dense; bracts entirely herbaceous. Flowers 6–8 mm diam.; pedicels ± equalling calyx, ± densely retrorse-pilose. Calyx densely eglandular-pilose. Sepals 5–6 mm long, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute; margins not or only narrowly scarious. Petals ± 50% length of sepals, with minute auricle at base. Styles 5. Capsule c. 7 mm long, narrow-ampulliform, straight; teeth very short, truncate. Seeds 0.5–0.8 mm long, chestnut brown, minutely striate-tuberculate.
Often found in moss swards on granite rocks; also in sandy, stony, loam and clay soils, rocky hill slopes, in eucalypt woodland, and beside creeks and lakes.
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