Open to dense, prostrate to erect shrub 0.2-1 (-3) m tall. Branchlets angular to terete, sericeous to tomentose. Leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate to linear or subterete, 0.3-5.0 cm long, 0.5-5.5 mm wide; upper surface flat to convex, often glossy; margins (often unevenly) revolute to recurved; lower surface enclosed and 1-grooved, or partly to wholly exposed and usually sericeous. Conflorescence terminal or subterminal-axillary, erect, sessile or shortly pedunculate, regular, umbelloid, 2-16-flowered. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream; style sometimes becoming pink to dull red. Perianth subsericeous or loosely so outside, glabrous or nearly so inside with a near-basal cushion-like pulvinus (this sometimes bearing a few erect hairs). Pistil 6-7.5 mm long; style strongly incurved, often hooked near apex, with papilloid or short erect hairs in apical 1 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 8.5-9.5 mm long, with a longitudinal line or shallow furrow along either side.
Grows in heath, woodland, or herbfield, often in moist and/or rocky situations.
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