Diffuse, herbaceous perennials to 20 cm high, with few to many prostrate stems arising from a rootstock. Stems up to 0.8 mm across; young branchlets striate; striae smooth. Leaves linear or narrowly elliptic, 5–13 mm long, 0.9–1.5 mm wide, flat, with margins entire or sometimes 3-toothed distally and slightly to strongly recurved, apex acute, smooth adaxially; stipules 0.4–0.5 mm long. Inflorescences sessile or sometimes pedunculate; peduncles 0.1–0.4 mm across. Male flowers: calyx lobes ovate-elliptic, 1.3–1.4 mm long; petals reniform, 0.7–0.8 mm long, apex obtuse to rounded; staminal filaments 0.7–0.8 mm long; connective tissue 0.2–0.4 mm long; rudimentary ovary present with 1 or 2 erect linear lobes; lobes up to 0.5 mm long. Female flowers: calyx lobes ovate, 1–1.4 mm long; petals absent; styles 2-lobed; lobes c. four-fifths the length of style. Fruit ovoid, 1.9–2.1, smooth or ± rugose distally. Seeds not seen.
Grows on creek banks in dry sclerophyll forest, and on hillslopes and ridges in heath, wet mallee or open eucalypt forest. Soils moist, sandy overlying sandstone.
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