Spreading, usually diffuse shrub to 1–4 m high, young branchlets and leaves conspicuously rusty-tomentose, older leaves glabrous, or retaining some hairs on undersurface. Leaves alternate or in pseudowhorls, ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 4–12 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, margins plane or undulate. Flowers sweet-scented, bisexual, in short terminal racemes, or stalked, umbel-like cymes; pedicels 4–15 mm long; sepals free, lanceolate, c. 5 mm long, minutely ciliate or pubescent; petals oblong, 10–20 mm long, yellow, recurved in upper third. Capsule broadly ellipsoid or globose, 12–20 mm long, dark brown, deeply wrinkled and warty, rusty-pubescent, thick-walled; inner face shallowly grooved, yellowish; seeds numerous, 3–5 mm long, red-brown. Flowers Oct.–Nov.
GipP, EGL, EGU, Strz. Also Qld, NSW. Rather uncommon in lowland dry forest and warm-temperate rainforest margins from about Cann River eastwards to the New South Wales border, with a westerly disjunction at Mt Nowa Nowa where locally common.
