Weakly scandent shrub forming a mass to at least 1.5 m high, new shoots and leaves villous with uniseriate hairs (clear short base [1–3 cells] topped by a very elongated, visible terminal cell to 1 mm long: Billardiera-type hairs), and typical Cheiranthera-type hairs (shorter terminal thick walled cells). Leaves clustering at nodes in different sizes, alternate on twining branchlets, obovate to almost rectangular; juvenile foliage obovate, 20–32 mm long, c. 10 mm wide, retaining muronate apices of vestigial lobes, rapidly entire; adult leaves elliptic to oblong, 15–22 mm long, 4–5 mm wide, margin recurved, entire, softly hairy, apex rounded, mucronate; both surfaces softly hairy; base truncated into a distinctive petiole, purple, 1–2 mm long. Inflorescences single, rarely paired, bisexual, protandrous irregular flowers on a nodding, slender peduncle 12–15 mm long, subtended by a leaflike bract (c. 2 mm long) at base; mostly glabrous. Sepals narrow- to broad-triangular, 1–3 mm long, green. Petals obovate, 10–15 mm long, deep violet both surfaces. Stamens group together to face petal break, free, not cohering; filaments similar in length to anthers, thin, wider at the base, twisting, purple-blue; anthers dehiscing pollen through apical pores, 3–4 mm long, yellow not gold, oblong, slightly emarginate at the top; pollen yellow. Pistil not stipitate, glabrous; ovary about the same length as rather stout, hooked style style; stigma eventually bifid. Fruit not seen.
On undulating, gravelly clay/laterite loam in open forests (Eucalyptus wandoo, E. calophylla, E. marginata; Xanthorrhoea spp.) and heath.
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