Prostrate to decumbent or ascending perennial; stems slender, to 30 cm long, pubescent with short retrorse hairs. Leaves and stipules subsessile or shortly petiolate, c. equal, in whorls of 6, rarely with 1 or 2 whorls of 7, narrow-elliptic, narrow-obovate, oblanceolate or spathulate, 4–15 mm long, 1.5–6 mm wide, acute to obtuse, occasionally rounded, with scattered hairs abaxially, glabrous or with scattered antrorse hairs adaxially, margins flat, recurved or revolute, densely hairy except near base. Inflorescences terminal cymes, mostly 3–5-flowered, usually longer than leaves. Corolla 2.5–4 mm long on male flowers, 1–2 mm long on females, white; corolla-tube c. as long as lobes or slightly shorter. Fruit deeply 2-lobed; mericarps reniform, 1.8–2 mm long, rugose, black or brown. Flowers mid-spring–early summer.
GipP, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Confined to wet sclerophyll forest in and near the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne.
