Prostrate lignotuberous shrub with trailing stems. Leaves ovate to narrowly elliptic, 5-25 cm long, 15-50 mm wide, entire, obtuse to ±truncate at base or rarely cuneate to broadly so; margins undulate, not recurved; lower surface with open to very sparse layer of appressed biramous hairs, often also with few to many erect minute papillae 0.1-0.5 mm long. Conflorescence erect, terminal or rarely axillary, simple, usually exceeding foliage, secund, weakly basipetal to subsynchronous; floral rachis 45-100 mm long, with appressed pale hairs. Flower colour: perianth light green; style pink to red. Perianth openly to sparsely sericeous outside with mixed rusty-brown and pale biramous hairs, pilose inside. Pistil 36-42 mm long; stipe 5-6 mm long; ovary villous; style loosely villous in lower third to half, nearly always glabrous in apical half to third, rarely a few hairs persisting. Follicle obloid-ovoid to subglobose, c. 15 mm long, tomentose with red-brown blotching.
Grows in open eucalypt forest, savanna woodland, and low heath, in siliceous sands or loamy soil.
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