Spreading to erect shrub 0.3-1.6 m high. Leaves entire and linear to narrowly cuneate or narrowly obovate, or occasionally 2-or 3 (-5)-partite with lobes similar, 2-7 cm long, 0.9-4.5 mm wide, sometimes pungent; margins usually angularly revolute and enclosing lower surface, occasionally loosely revolute with lower surface partly exposed; lower surface subsericeous to tomentose. Unit conflorescence deflexed, secund; floral rachis 10-30 mm long. Perianth subsericeous or loosely so outside. Pistil (20-) 23-26 (-30) mm long; stipe 0.9-2.5 mm long; style glabrous or sometimes minutely subpapillose about middle on ventral side. Follicle 10-14.5 mm long, loosely and shortly villous.Occurs in south-western W.A.