Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets terete, with leaf bases not decurrent, not glandular-verrucose, densely hairy with stellate, simple and bifid hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 3–8 mm long, stellate-tomentose; central leaflet elliptic to obovate, 11–32 mm long, 3.5–10 mm wide, flat to recurved at margins, obtuse to acute, minutely mucronate; both surfaces not glandular-verrucose; adaxial surface glabrous or rarely sparsely pilose (Bull Creek Gorge); abaxial surface densely stellate-tomentose, often with scattered long simple hairs. Inflorescences usually shorter than leaves, 3–20+-flowered; bracts c. 0.9 mm long, persistent; pedicels with moderately dense indumentum. Sepals 1–2 mm long, acute, inflexed, glabrous or with scattered simple, bifid and stellate hairs towards tip adaxially, with sparse to moderately dense stellate and sometimes simple hairs abaxially, sometimes only at base. Petals imbricate, 3.5–5 mm long, white or white-pink, not obviously glandular, sparsely hairy adaxially, stellate-tomentose abaxially. Filaments glabrous or with few hairs, weakly warted at tip. Cocci not glandular-verrucose, sparsely stellate-hairy on inner edge or all over.
Occurs in open eucalypt forest, woodland and shrubland in sand over sandstone or granite, commonly in sheltered situations such as the base of cliffs and in gullies.
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