Prostrate to scandent or occasionally weakly erect sub-shrub, to 0.3 m tall. Branches usually long, scandent or arching, pliable. Branchlets angular, ridged, usually some hairs in grooves. Leaves linear or sublinear, (5-) 6-12 (-17) cm long, 1-2 mm wide (to 4 mm on juvenile growth), usually solitary (occasionally crowded but not in clusters of 3); upper surface not punctate, with midvein and intramarginal veins scarcely prominent; margins strongly refracted; lower surface sometimes concealed except for midvein, when partly exposed densely to sparsely subsericeous or glabrous. Conflorescence terminal, erect, usually pedunculate (peduncles 10-40 mm long), sometimes 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence secund, 16-24-flowered, acropetal. Flower colour: perianth mid to deep mauve-pink; style similar but paler, becoming red with age. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth tomentose to subvillous outside, especially on limb, bearded inside. Pistil 7-9 mm long; style sharply hooked in apical c. 3 mm, glabrous except for a few subapical papillae (sometimes these only on rear of pollen-presenter); pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle 7-9 mm long, colliculose.
Grows in shrubby woodland and heathy wallum associations, usually in shadier moister areas near drainage lines, in sandy soils or rarely rhyolite outcrops.
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