Habit: woody shrubs, sometimes erect to nearly 0.5 m, procumbent in later developmental stages; main shoots generally aerial.new shoots villous or cobwebby with uniseriate hairs with a long, curling terminal cell. Leaves: seedling leaves clustered and stem clasping, 6–8 x 1.5 mm, narrow obovate, apices trilobed and spreading, mid lobe larger; essentially sessile, both leaf surfaces hairy with more or less persistent hairs. Adult leaves similar to seedling stages but larger, 8–12 (15) x 2–3 mm, apices mostly trilobed, becoming acuminate with mucro, margins thickened,both surfaces glabrescent. Inflorescences solitary or paired, rarely more than three flowers, flower stalks 6-7 mm long, sparsely hairy, angular, nodding, usually with one sepaline bract, to 6 mm long, one shorter bracteole (3-4 mm long), both with sparsely hairy margins. Sepals to 4 mm long, narrow triangular or filiform, mauve. Petals 6-7 mm long, elliptic, creamy white tinged mauve. Stamens: filaments nearly 4 times the length of anthers, white, thick, stout, sometimes tapering from base to apex but more usually prominently and variably flared. Anthers versatile, yellow-brown, basically triangular or oblong, apices usually rounded rather than acute, dehiscing just prior to anthesis by longitudinal slits; pollen mauve or yellow; stamens bending away from developing style, anthers then caduceus. Pistil: ovary purple-pink, distinctly stipitate. Fruit dehiscent, purse-shaped capsules, 4–8 x 4–8 mm, nodding, fawn, dry, chartaceous, purse-shaped capsules with 1-6 seeds per loculus filling available space; seeds to 2.5 x 1 mm, kidney shaped (reniform), flattened, surface bullate, very wrinkled when dry. Flowering in spring (September) but continuing to December. Fruit mature several months later.
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