Erect subshrub to 40 cm high, aromatic; stems barely ribbed, glandular-pubescent, with a few simple hairs. Leaves sessile, c. erect, stem-clasping, ovate to broad-elliptic, 1–3 cm long, 4–20 mm wide, obtuse to acute, pubescent or glabrescent, margins toothed. Flowers 1–3 per axil; peduncles 0.5–1 mm long; pedicels 0.5–3 mm long; bracteoles ovate to lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm long. Sepals ovate to lanceolate, 2–3 mm long; corolla 10–12 mm long, pubescent, scarcely auriculate, yellow, abaxial lobes c. 4 mm long, wings c. 1.5 mm wide; indusium broad-elliptic; ovules c. 15. Fruit ovoid, c. 5 mm long, valves entire; seeds elliptic, c. 2 mm long, with a thickened rim and vestigial wing, yellow-brown, more or less smooth. Flowers mainly Sep.–Jan.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, Gold, GGr. Also SA. Scattered across western Victoria in an area bounded by the Big Desert in the north, Mt Arapiles in the south and the Whipstick Scrub near Bendigo in the east. Found in open-forest, woodland and mallee scrub.
