Spreading shrub 0.25-1 m high. Leaves 4-15 cm long, usually bipinnatifid or rarely once-pinnatifid, with 6-18 primary lobes; ultimate lobes usually triangular, 0.3-2 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, pungent; margins flat to shortly recurved; lower surface usually glabrous and glaucous, rarely openly subsericeous. Conflorescence simple or occasionally branched; unit conflorescence erect to decurved, loosely secund; floral rachis 40-200 mm long. Flower colour: perianth variably dull pinkish to crimson, occasionally pale green or pale orange, sometimes limb paler; style various shades of red. Perianth somewhat saccate at base, tomentose outside with both biramous and simple erect glandular hairs, glabrous inside. Pistil 34-42 mm long; style loosely tomentose to pilose with both biramous and simple erect glandular hairs, becoming ±glabrous towards apex. Follicle 17-21 mm long, tomentose with mainly biramous hairs and a scattering of simple erect glandular hairs.
Grows in heath, open eucalypt forest, and eucalypt woodland, in a range of soil types (usually sandy or at least partly laterised, occasionally granitic loams.
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