Erect shrub to 2 m. Branches moderately tomentose with both dendritic, non-glandular hairs and smaller glandular hairs. Leaves ovate to narrowly ovate, rarely ovate-elliptic, sessile or almost so, 8–35 mm long, 2–10 mm wide, sparsely pubescent; juvenile leaves up to 11 cm long and 4 cm wide, with petioles to 15 mm long. Inflorescence panicle-like, dense, leafy; pedicels 2.5–6.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent. Calyx 3–4 mm long, glabrous or almost so. Corolla 10–14.5 mm long, almost glabrous, white, the striations purple; lobes ovate-truncate to linear, 4–5.5 (rarely 9) mm long. Stamens 2–4 mm long. Capsule more or less globose, 4–5 mm diam. Seeds 2.4–3.5 mm long.
Occurs in rocky gullies in dry, sclerophyll forest, and on exposedrocky spurs in shrubland, in sandy soils derived from sandstone.
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