Shrub to 0.6 m high. Branchlets terete, with leaf bases not decurrent, not obviously glandular, with sparse to moderately dense simple, bifid and stellate hairs. Leaves trifoliolate, not glandular-verrucose; petiole 2–3 mm long, sparsely pilose; central leaflet obovate, 10–16 mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, recurved to revolute at margins, acute to apiculate, sparsely pilose adaxially, densely stellate-tomentose abaxially; midrib and some secondary veins raised abaxially. Inflorescences longer than leaves, 1–12-flowered; bracts 2–2.5 mm long. Sepals 1–1.2 mm long, minutely pilose adaxially becoming glabrous towards centre, glabrous and slightly glaucous abaxially. Petals valvate, 2–2.5 mm long, white though drying pink, minutely pilose adaxially, densely stellate-tomentose abaxially. Filaments glabrous, eglandular. Cocci minutely apiculate, slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous.
Grows in wallum as well as woodland of Corymbia trachyphloia, Eucalyptus siderophloia, E. racemosa and Allocasuarina littoralis.
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