Spreading to decumbent shrubs to 0.5 m high. Young stems glabrescent and sparsely to moderately pubescent with long simple hairs over antrorse simple tubercle-based hairs; intrapetiolar tufts to 0.6 mm long. Leaves shortly petiolate, erect or usually spreading, linear to narrowly oblong, (1.8–) 2.3–3.0 (–4.6) mm long, (0.45–) 0.6–0.8 (–1.1) mm wide; margins revolute usually not tightly wedging the recessed midrib and with some of the abaxial lamina usually exposed, rarely obscuring the entire abaxial lamina, often with minute teeth; adaxial surface ± flattened, tuberculate, puberulous-glabrescent with scattered antrorse, ± appressed tubercle-based short hairs; abaxial surface mostly obscured by the margins, glabrous or with very few hairs (similar to upper surface) and glabrescent, rarely sparsely hairy on the midrib; apex acute to obtuse, recurved, excurrent midrib with long terminal tuft of hairs (eventually glabrescent). Flowers single, terminal on main and lateral branches, on pedicels (2–) 3–8 mm long. Bracts 2–4, herbaceous; primary bract towards the base of the pedicel, linear or linear-triangular, 1.8–2.8 mm long, with spreading simple, non-tuberculate hairs, the margins scarcely recurved; apex acute to acuminate and recurved; secondary bracts grading into the leaves. Sepals 4.4–5.1 mm long, herbaceous; abaxial surface glabrous or glabrescent-puberulous with scattered short, simple non-tuberculate hairs; adaxial surface glabrous or rarely with few hairs distally; outer sepals narrowly elliptic, the apex acute and ± ridged; inner sepals elliptic-obovate, rounded to mucronate. Petals 5, yellow, obovate, 6.8–7.5 mm long, emarginate. Stamens 7–9 (10), arranged around the carpels; filaments filiform, ± free, 1.6–1.8 mm long; anthers obloid to broadly obloid, 1.6–1.9 mm long, dehiscing by ± introrse longitudinal slits; staminodes absent. Carpels 3 or 4 (5); ovaries obovoid, hirsute; styles attached to the apex then recurved and curved upwards with the stigmas above the anthers, c. 3 mm long. Ovules 2–4 per carpel. Seeds not seen.
Typically occurs in low heathy scrub or low eucalypt woodlands, sometimes under tall dense shrubs, usually on steep, wet slopes (rarely from streamlines), in sandy soil over sandstone.
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