Dwarf shrub, up to 0.5 m high. Leaves 3-nate, crowded, suberect, imbricate, 2.1 mm long, linear, subobtuse, flat above, convex and sulcate below, glabrous, ciliate, shortly aristate-apiculate. Flowers 3-nate. Calyx sepals foliaceous, lanceolate, united a little above base, glabrous, ± 1 mm long. Corolla globose to cyathiform when young, becoming broadly ovoid with mouth slightly contracted, glabrous, sometimes viscid, ± 1.5 mm long; lobes broadly deltoid, slightly spreading 1/3-1/2 length of tube, white. Anthers exserted, semi-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous, smooth, ± 0.8 mm long, aristate; pore ± 1/3 as long as theca; appendages < 1/3 as long as theca, sometimes incurved. Style exserted, slender, decurved; stigma capitate, lobed or punctate above, somewhat large. Ovary white-pubescent, 4-loculed, several ovules per locule. Flowering time Sept.-Nov.
Like E. granulosa , erect shrublet to 50 cm. Flowers small, ovoid-cup-shaped, slightly sticky, white, with exserted anthers.