Shrub to 1.5 m, drab green, densely pubescent with stellate hairs; prickles generally absent, occasionally present on stems. Leaves elliptic, ovate-lanceolate or rarely ovate; lamina mostly 3–6 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, slightly discolorous, entire; petiole 5–10 mm long. Inflorescence short, 1–4-flowered; peduncle to 5 mm long; pedicels c. 5 mm long. Calyx 5–8 mm long; lobes linear-oblong or narrowly triangular, 2–5 mm long, slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla stellate, shallowly incised, 15–25 mm diam., purple-blue. Anthers 3–5 mm long. Berry globular, 5–8 mm diam., bright red, more or less covered by calyx-lobes. Seeds c. 2 mm long, pale.
Grows onstony outcrops, in granitic and basaltic soil. Associated with margins of vineforest, brigalow and lancewood (Acacia spp.)and eucalypt woodland.
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