Low spreading shrub 0.5-1 m high. Leaves ascending, crowded, entire, narrowly linear, 1-6 cm long, 0.7-2.1 mm wide, acute to obtuse with recurved black point; upper surface subsericeous when young, soon glabrous, smooth to very faintly longitudinally ribbed with obscure venation; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface enclosed except midvein, 2-grooved, subsericeous in grooves. Conflorescence erect, sessile, 1-5-flowered, usually axillary and simple, or terminal and then sometimes few-branched; rachis scarcely evident, villous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth pinkish red; style pinkish orange with greenish tip. Perianth sparsely subsericeous outside, densely bearded inside about level of ovary with hairs extending to curve; tepals shortly and independently recoiled after anthesis. Pistil 17.5-25 mm long; stipe 1.5-2.4 mm long; style strongly exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicles erect, ellipsoidal, 12-16 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, wrinkled, glaucous, the apex truncate.
Grows on coastal sand dunes or sometimes on limestone cliffs, in eucalypt woodland, in sandy loam with limestone.
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