Dense shrub 0.5-2.5 m high with erect branches. Leaves ascending, entire, obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate to rarely narrowly elliptic or linear, 1.2-8 cm long, 1-8 (-12) mm wide, obtuse to emarginate, mucronate; upper surface sprinkled with appressed hairs, soon glabrous and slightly glaucous, minutely pitted, with several fine longitudinal ribs; margins smoothly recurved or rarely revolute; lower surface exposed, subsericeous. Conflorescence erect, sessile or pedunculate, axillary or terminal on short lateral branchlet or cauline, usually simple, 1-6-flowered; rachis 0.4-2.5 mm long, subvillous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth brownish yellow, orange or reddish brown; style pale yellow to reddish with green tip. Perianth subsericeous to sparsely so outside, bearded inside above ovary; tepals independently recoiled after anthesis. Pistil 18-22.5 mm long; stipe 1.9-3.5 mm long; style exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicles erect, ovoid-ellipsoidal, 10.5-12.5 (?-20) mm long, 3.5-5 mm wide, with faint longitudinal dorsal ridges, irregularly warted, glabrous, glaucous.
Grows in moist heath or tall shrubland or mallee woodland, in sandy clay, sand over laterite, or granitic loam, often with limestone substrate.
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