Compact herbaceous perennials to 50 cm high, with few to many stems arising from a single rootstock. Stems up to 4 mm across; young branchlets smooth or papillose. Leaves lanceolate, narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic, narrowly oblong-elliptic or lorate, (5–) 8–30 mm long, (0.6–) 3–6 mm wide, ± flat, with margins entire and recurved to revolute, apex acute to obtuse, smooth adaxially, dark green; stipules 0.3–2 mm long. Male flowers: calyx lobes ovate, 1–1.8 mm long, 0.7–1.2 mm wide; petals ovate or oblong, 2.1–4.1 mm long, apex obtuse to rounded or acute and margins entire or erose; staminal filaments 1.7–3.1 mm long; connective tissue 0.2–0.9 mm long; rudimentary ovary present, with 3–5 erect linear lobes; lobes 1.2–2.7 mm long. Female flowers: calyx lobes ovate, 1.6–2.8 mm long, 0.9–1.3 mm wide; petals ovate or elliptic, 2.5–3.8 mm long, apex acute or obtuse to rounded; styles 2-lobed; lobes two-thirds to three-quarters the length of style. Fruit subglobose, 3–4.5 mm diam., ± smooth. Seeds ellipsoid, ovoid or obloid.
Grows on sandplains or low undulating country in low open heath, shrubland or eucalypt woodland communities. Soils usually grey or yellow sands sometimes in sandy loam usually with lateritic gravel in profile.
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