Shrub to 3 m high, multistemmed from below ground level. Branchlets densely stellate-hairy. Stipules filiform, deciduous, 0.25–1.2 cm long. Mature leaves alternate; petiole 0.2–0.5 cm long, stellate-hairy; lamina narrowly obovate to narrowly subpanduriform, 4.5–28 cm long, 1.5–9 cm wide, base rounded to cordate, margin distantly serrate (often obscurely so), apex acuminate to rounded, venation pinnate with 6–10 primary veins on each side of midrib, weakly discolorous, the abaxial and adaxial surface sparsely and minutely stellate-hairy (excepting the midrib which is more densely stellate-hairy than the remainder of the surface) with the hairs predominantly or exclusively inserted on the midrib and veins. Flowers 1– 2 (–3) per leaf axil; peduncle and pedicel combined 0.6–2.8 cm long, the articulation about one-third to half-way from peduncle base, stellate-hairy; epicalyx segments 7–9, linear to linear-elliptic, 0.7–1.2 cm long, free to base, stellate-hairy; calyx narrowly ovoid, 5-lobed (2 or 3 lobes sometimes tardily separating from the adjacent lobe), 1–2 cm long, the lobes 0.3–0.6 cm long, stellate-hairy; petals 5, imbricate, adnate to the ovary/staminal column for c. 0.3 cm but otherwise free, spathulate with the apex obliquely truncate, 2.2–3.7 cm long, deep rose pink, wine-red or red, stellate-hairy on the abaxial surface; staminal column 2.4–3.2 cm long, white, 5-toothed at the apex, stellate-hairy proximally and glandular-hairy for the remainder (especially so on the apical teeth), stamens 20, in a whorl of 10 pairs (the stamens of each pair superposed), the whorl 0.2–0.3 cm below the apex of the staminal column, the filaments spreading-ascending, 0.3–0.6 cm long, white; style branches 5, erect and appressed to each other at anthesis and later separating, elongating and recurving, 0.3–0.8 cm long, very pale pink, the stigmas capitate, hairy; ovary conical, 0.5 cm long, stellate-hairy, 5-loculate with c. 6 ovules per locule. Fruit not seen.
Recorded mainly in open forest (of Neofabricia, Thryptomene and Xanthostemon with emergent Araucaria cunninghamii), low closed forest, in semideciduous vine thicket, evergreen vine forest and rainforest; recorded substrates are reddish sandy soil and white sand; recorded landscapes are sand dunes and a creekline in a narrow gorge.
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