Usually branched herbs to 40 cm high, with a spreading rhizome. Leaves all cauline, obovate to lanceolate, 25–80 mm long, 5–15 mm wide. Flowers 10–15 mm wide, white to pale mauve, pendent from leaf axils on pedicels 7–20 mm long; stamens shorter than perianth segments. Berry ovoid, 5–10 mm long, blue to purple; seeds few to numerous, 2–3 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
Wim, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, GGr, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW, Tas. Scattered and rather uncommon in moist, shaded, mostly elevated forests in the south-east from the Gembrook area east to near Bonang, rare in the west, with occurrences at Mt Clay near Portland, Victoria Range in the Grampians, Beech Forest area in the Otways and at Mt Macedon.
