Shrub to 1 m tall; branchlets clothed with spreading hairs to 1.5 mm long and scattered, shorter, uncinate hairs. Leaves subdigitately 5-7-foliolate, on petiole 1-5 mm long. Leaflets sessile, narrowly elliptic, ±the same size, 0.7-2.2 cm long, 2-5 mm wide; margins revolute; upper surface with scattered, uncinate hairs; lower surface glabrous except for scattered hairs to 1.75 mm long on midrib and sometimes on margins. Stipules ovate, tardily deciduous. Racemes 3-9-flowered, pendulous, longer than the leaves, densely clothed with short, spreading, uncinate hairs. Sepals 5; outer two 4.5-7 mm long, 1.5-2.8 mm wide, sparsely clothed with short, erect, uncinate hairs. Petals 4. Anthers ±equal in length, 3.2-4.5 mm long. Pods (only immature pods seen) 1.1-1.5 cm long, 6-7 mm wide. Seeds not known.
Reported growing in crevices between ironstone boulders on exposed slopes in low heath or with mallee Eucalyptus , Acacia , Allocasuarina and other myrtaceous and proteaceous shrubs, and in laterite and coarse sandy loam in disturbed roadside localities.
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