Deciduous shrub to c. 4 m high, glabrous, or puberulent especially on young parts; shoots reddish. Main stems with peeling brown papery bark. Lvs not usually clustered near apex, mostly opposite, sometimes in whorls of 3; petiole to 1.5 cm long, very slender, reddish. Lamina 2-9 × 0.5-4 cm, often smaller below fls, lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, glabrous, dentate, sinuate-dentate, or occasionally almost entire, often reddish on veins; base cuneate to rounded; apex acute to acuminate. Fls solitary in upper axils, pendulous. Pedicels (1)-2-6 cm long, filiform. Floral tube 6-12 mm long, narrow-to broad-cylindric, constricted at junction with ovary, usually rose or crimson, occasionally white. Sepals 1.25-2.5 cm × (2.5)-3-7 mm, narrow-to ovate-lanceolate, usually rose or crimson, occasionally white, not reflexing. Petals (7)-9-17 mm long, obovate, usually purple, rarely pale mauve or pink, imbricate. Episepalous stamens (0.7)-2-3.5 cm long, the epipetalous ones c. 5 mm shorter; filaments pink or red. Style (2)-3-5.5 cm long, hairy or glabrous, rose; stigma ± 4-lobed. Berry 1-2 cm long, oblong, glabrous, black.
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Shrub to c. 3 m high, usually with numerous slender arching stems. Leaves usually opposite, ovate-lanceolate, denticulate; 2–5 cm long; petiole long, slender. Flowers solitary, axillary, pendulous; peduncle 20–25 mm long, filiform. Hypanthium 7–15 mm long, pale pink to red. Sepals c. 1.5–2.5 cm long, longer than petals, acute, pale pink to red. Petals mostly 10–20 mm long, 5–11 mm wide, broad and obtuse, pale pink to purple. Stamens on very slender filaments, long-exserted. Style exceeding stamens. Berry many-seeded, often reddish.
A shrub 1.5-3 m high. It is spreading and the branches are slender. The stems arch over. The bark is papery. The leaves are sword shaped and pointed. They are usually in rings of three. They are 2-4 cm long and have fine teeth around the edge. The flowers are small and crimson. They are 4-5 cm long. They hang down. The sepals are red and the petals are purple. The style and stamens protrude beyond the petals. The flowers are somewhat fleshy. Their stalks are slender. The fruit are purple-black. They are 2.5 cm long.
It is a temperate plant. It can tolerate light frosts. It will grow in almost any soil type. It grows up to 2,000 m above sea level. It suits hardiness zones 7-10. Tasmania Herbarium. Arboretum Tasmania. Hobart Botanical Gardens.
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Recorded from wasteland, weedy roadsides, railway cuttings, creeklines, riverbanks, fern gullies, disturbed open forest, wet sclerophyll forest, rainforest margins; usually cool moist habitats and near settlement.
Forest clearings and margins, especially in mixed evergreen/deciduous woods. Forming thickets along streamsides or in marshy places.
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