Compact to open, erect to sprawling shrubs 0.1–0.5 (–1) m high. Young stems sparsely to moderately pubescent with silvery to greyish, appressed to tangled simple hairs sometimes overtopped by sparse, spreading pilose hairs. Leaves sessile, spreading, scattered, ovate to obovate or oblong (rarely narrowly so), (15–) 25–40 (–50) mm long, (3–) 5–12 mm wide; margins entire, flat or narrowly recurved; adaxial surface appressed-sericeous at first, becoming ± glabrous with age, with long, ± straight hairs over shorter, very fine, ± sinuous hairs; abaxial surface similar to the adaxial but the indumentum slightly more persistent and, hence, often somewhat paler; apex obtuse to subapiculate. Flowers single in upper leaf axils, on pedicels (10–) 25–50 (–70) mm long with indumentum as for the young stems. Bracts 2–5, subtending the pedicel, reddish-brown, scarious, ovate, obtuse to acute, to 6 mm long, glabrous to sparsely sericeous; primary and secondary bracts similar. Sepals broadly ovate, 6–8 (–11) mm long, abaxially moderately (rarely sparsely) pilose with ± appressed to spreading silvery hairs, adaxially glabrous to distally short-pubescent; midribs not prominent; outer sepals obtuse or subacute to ± acuminate; inner sepals broader and less acute than the outer, with broad, ± glabrous, scarious margins, otherwise similar to the outer; buds acute to slightly rostrate. Petals 5, yellow, broadly obovate, 10–12 mm long, shallowly emarginate to entire. Stamens 61–90, distributed evenly around the carpels; filaments free, 1.8–2.5 mm long, not closely appressed to the carpels; anthers cuboid to shortly rectangular, c. 1 mm long, dehiscing by introrse, longitudinal slits in the upper one-third to half; staminodes present, filiform, or absent. Carpels (3–) 5; ovaries compressed, glabrous; styles spreading laterally and excentrically from near the carpel apex, c. 2 mm long. Ovules 2 per carpel. Seeds not seen.
Grows on sandstone, laterite and granite, often in rocky sites and breakaways, with a few specimens from yellow sandplains, in kwongan and Acacia shrublands.
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