Annual herb, erect with ascending branches, up to 30 cm high; indumentum of short curved and long straight or bent hairs. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong, rarely oblanceolate or obovate, occasionally conduplicate, 3.5–29 mm long, 1–6 mm wide; apex rounded, truncate, retuse or emarginate, mucro 0.2–0.3 mm long; petiole 0–2 mm long. Inflorescence supra-axillary or axillary, a raceme to 17 mm long, not exceeding the leaves. Pedicel to 2 mm long. Alae antrorse to perpendicular in fruit (position), herbaceous, narrowly ovate, usually falcate to dimidiate, 4.6–7.0 mm long, 1.4–2.4 mm wide, densely hairy with long straight hairs, occasionally with curved hairs also. Corolla purple; keel petal with few strigose hairs along abaxial surface of keel; floral appendages fimbriate; upper petal claw 0.5–0.7 mm wide. Stamens terminate at stigma, monadelphous; staminal flap c. 0.5 mm wide. Style hooked (horseshoe-shaped at apex), ± terete, with flat stigma along inner surface of hook. Capsule antrorse or perpendicular, mostly ± aligned with alae, or apex of alae diverging c. 45° from capsule, lacking wing, oblong to ovate, 3.5–4.5 mm long, 2.3–3.3 mm wide; lobe apices rounded and separated. Seed ovoid–obloid, 3.0–3.9 mm long, 1.25–1.50 mm wide, with indumentum of fine white or ferruginous hairs. Aril head narrowly helmet-shaped, 0.6–1.0 mm long, white or white and brown, with fine short hairs over whole of aril head. Aril appendages 3, oblong, 0.50–0.75 mm long.
Usually found in a variety of eucalypt woodlands including Eucalyptus crebra, E. pruinosa, Eucalyptus leichhardtii and Acacia shrublands, in sand and sandy loam.
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