Plants single or clumping. Leaf straight, leathery, 100–40 × 4–10 mm, light green with purplish base, ribbed. Flower stem 100–600 × 1.5–3.5 mm, green to purplish, 2–10-flowered. Sterile bracts 2 or 3. Flowers 10–40 mm across, pale blue or mauve, sometimes pink. Sepals and petals 10–20 × 3–8 mm. Column 4–7 × 2–4 mm, white, pale blue or pale pink; post-anther lobe 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, hooding anther, tubular, brown, orange or reddish, apex entire or notched, sometimes yellow, margin wavy; column arms converging, 1–1.5 mm long, curved sharply near middle; hair-tufts toothbrush-like, white, hairs c. 1 mm long.
Widely distributed; found growing in shallow soil over rock shelves on granite outcrops, often among clumps of Borya; also on other rocky sites including ironstone breakaways, laterite rubble and limestone; occasionally in mulga scrub and tall mallee with a heathy understorey.
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