Shrub 1-2.5 m high, often multistemmed. Leaves entire, round or broadly obovate to obcordate, 3.5-15 cm long, 50-150 mm wide, not pungent; margins flat; lower surface with a sparse to dense appressed indumentum. Conflorescence erect, terminal or axillary, simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence 6-16-flowered, secund, acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 3-8 mm long; flowers acroscopic throughout, often not paired; pedicels ascending to spreading, 3.5-8 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pale to deep pink reddening from base with age; limb mauve, or rarely white with a mauve tinge; style white often with a pink to red tip. Perianth glabrous outside, transversely bearded inside. Pistil 12-19.5 mm long, glabrous; stipe 2-5 mm long. Follicle obliquely broadly ellipsoidal, 16-19 mm long, thin-walled, glabrous.
Grows in eucalypt woodland and grassland on plateaus, often on low rises, in sandy soils on sandstone, laterite or quartzite.
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