Perennial herb with adventitious roots. Leaves rosetted, laying flat against the ground or slightly ascending, elliptic to lanceolate, mostly 2–8 cm long and 5–15 mm wide, thick, glossy, blunt, glabrous but with tufts of long golden-brown hairs in axils, 3-veined, margins c. entire; petiole indistinct. Spike subcapitate, (2–)4–9(–13)-flowered, 4–6 mm diam.; peduncles 1–2 mm long at anthesis, pubescent, elongating in fruit, then as long as or longer than leaves; bracts ovate, 2.4–3.5 mm long, acute, glabrous. Sepals elliptic, 2.5–3.5 mm long, subequal; corolla-tube 2.5–3 mm long, lobes 1.4–2 mm long, c. spreading; anthers c. 1 mm long, exserted. Capsule ellipsoid to globose, 2.5–4 mm long; seeds 1–4, compressed-ovate, 1–2 mm long, yellowish-brown. Flowers Dec.–Feb.
HSF, VAlp. Also NSW. Known in Victoria only by a single small population from the Baw Baw Plateau where growing in shallow, peaty soil over rock on a streambank.
