Annual herb, erect with branches spreading to ascending, up to 16 cm high; indumentum of curved hairs. Leaves linear, narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate or rarely some leaves obovate, 5–38 mm long, 1–5 mm wide; apex acute or acuminate, occasionally obtuse, mucro c. 0.2 mm long; petiole to 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence supra-axillary or axillary, a raceme up to 40 mm long, sometimes exceeding the leaves, although usually shorter than leaves. Pedicel to 2 mm long. Alae perpendicular to deflexed in fruit, herbaceous, ovate, strongly dimidiate, 3.6–5.2 mm long, 1.6–2.2 mm wide, with scattered curved hairs only, especially along the margin. Corolla purple; floral appendages spathulate; upper petal claw c. 0.7 mm wide. Stamens terminate at stigma, monadelphous; staminal flap c. 0.7 mm wide. Style hooked (horseshoe-shaped at apex), in dried state style dorso-ventrally flattened and twisted in apical half, with flat stigma along inner surface of hook. Capsule deflexed (apex of alae diverging at c. 45° from capsule), lacking wing, ± symmetrical, ovoid, 2.25–2.75 mm long, 3.0–3.2 mm wide; lobe apices rounded and separated. Seed ovoid, 1.5–2.7 mm long, 1.25–1.60 wide, with indumentum of fine white or ferruginous hairs. Aril head reduced, 0.25–0.50 mm long, brown where reduced to seed testa and white where appendages originate, with short hairs. Aril appendages 3, spathulate, 1.3–2.1 mm long.
Found in Corymbia dichromophloia or Eucalyptus leucophloia woodlands, usually on stony hill slopes, rarely in seepage areas with Melaleuca viridiflora.
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