Prostrate or spreading shrub to 15 cm high, to 1 m diam.; branches densely scabridulous, becoming almost glabrous with age. Leaves with petiole 2.5–5 (–9) mm long; lamina flat, subcoriaceous, narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, rarely to broadly obovate, 8–28 mm long, 2–10 mm wide, l:w ratio (1.3–) 2.5–4.4, attenuate at base, scabridulous on margin, acute or shortly acuminate at apex; lower surface glabrous or minutely papillose, sometimes scabridulous basally, with midrib slightly thickened. Inflorescence many-flowered; basal nodes often foliose. Calyx 1–1.2 mm long. Corolla 2.2–3 mm long; lobes 1–1.3 mm long; inner surface moderately to densely pubescent from just above base of tube to a third of the way up lobes.
Usually occurring in open malleecommunities dominated by Eucalyptusincrassata, E. foecunda and E. oleosa, in brownish sandy soiloverlying limestone, or on flats adjacent to bare knolls.
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