Erect, leafy shrub, 20–100 cm high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves erect, narrowly elliptic or obovate, 10–22 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, flat, sometimes slightly twisted, slightly discolorous, glabrous, indistinctly nerved; margins entire; apex acuminate, terminated by a mucro c. 1 mm long. Flowers white, short-lived, solitary or paired in upper axils; bracteoles broadly ovate, 1.2–1.5 mm long, obtuse, glabrous; sepals ovate, 2.1–2.7 mm long, obtuse, glabrous; corolla c. 4 mm long, lobes c. twice as long as tube, acute, recurved only in upper part, erect below, densely bearded within; anthers lacking sterile tips; ovary glabrous, 2-locular, style 2–2.9 mm long, shortly exserted from corolla tube. Fruit narrowly obovoid, c. 4 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Sep.
EGL, EGU. Also NSW, Tas. In Victoria confined to poorly drained sites in near-coastal heathlands eastwards from Marlo, but locally rather common.
