Prostrate to mounded or dense erect shrub 0.2-2 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly oblong-elliptic to narrowly obovate or sublinear, sometimes plumply subterete, 0.5-4 cm long, 1-5 mm wide; margins revolute to recurved; upper surface scabrid and sometimes villous; lower surface enclosed and then 1-grooved, or exposed and then villous to sublanate. Conflorescence terminal and/or upper-axillary, usually simple, decurved or erect, usually a subsecund cluster, 2-10-flowered, basipetal; floral rachis 2.5-10 (-35) mm long, almost glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth pale pink to red at base and cream above, or red or cream throughout, rarely cream-green or pale yellow; style pink to red or rarely yellow-green. Perianth glabrous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 13.5-19.5 mm long; ovary subsessile (stipe
Grows in various habitats, usually moist sites near water, including riparian scrub associations, open snow-gum woodland, and tall eucalypt forest, in sandy, gravelly or light clay soils over granite, sandstone, serpentine or limestone.
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