Erect to weakly erect, few-to multi-branched shrub or undershrub (0.1–) 0.5–2.5 (–3.5) m tall; branches with 2 pairs of lateral ridges, glabrous. Leaves paler below, membranous to coriaceous, glabrous; petiole (2–) 5–10 (–18) mm long, rarely less than 1 mm long; lamina flat, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, occasionally ovate to narrowly ovate, or obovate, (36–) 50–110 (–130) mm long, (8–) 16–24 (–38) mm wide, l:w ratio (1.4–) 2–5 (–8.6), ±attenuate, shortly decurrent at base, usually shortly acuminate, sometimes attenuate at apex. Inflorescence 20–80-flowered per conflorescence, large and open branched to ±compact. Calyx 1.8–2.3 mm long. Corolla 3.8–4.7 (–5) mm long; inner surface of tube not thickened, with a few scattered hairs on basal third, densely hairy on distal half to two-thirds with hairs ±patent, ±straight; lobes (1.5–) 1.7–2 mm long, inner surface moderately to densely hairy on basal half with hairs crinkly, glabrous distally.
An occasional or locallyfrequent shrub, typically of disturbed sites (e.g. near roads andwatercourses), in Eucalyptus forestsand woodlands, or in coastal and near-coastal shrublands, often in sandy soils.
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