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Perennial herb; rootstock large tuberous, producing several woody subterranean stems up to 1.5 cm thick branching at ground-level; branches erect, up to c. 10(20) cm high, or decumbent to 30 cm long, usually woody or sometimes herbaceous when produced after annual fires, shortly pubescent with crisped hairs.
Leaves with a puberulous petiole to 5 mm long; stipules small, glandular, reddish; lamina to 70 × 9 mm, usually much less, linear-lanceolate, acute apiculate at the apex, rounded at the base, entire, midrib prominent beneath, margin and midrib beneath usually pubescent especially towards the base.
Female flower: styles 2 mm long, pubescent, joined to halfway, with spreading recurved shortly bifid apices, channelled on the upper (inner) surface.
Male flowers many: bracteoles laciniate, feathery; stamens 4.5 mm long, with pedicels usually pubescent at the apex.
Seeds 3.5 × 3.2 mm, subglobose, very obtusely pointed at the apex, smooth, brown speckled.
Capsule subsessile, shallowly 3-lobed, 5 × 7 mm, densely pubescent.
Cymes reduced to solitary cyathia terminating leafy branches.
