Weak decumbent subshrub; stems flexuose, to 60 cm long, reddish. Leaves linear-elliptic, 12–24 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, imbricate, mostly on younger branches, thick, somewhat flattened on the upper surface, pointed at apex, pinkish or blue-green and pruinose. Inflorescence a terminal cyme, somewhat globular, with branches recurved, to c. 6 cm long. Flowers 8–13 mm diam., pedicellate or subsessile; sepals ovate, c. 2.5 mm long; petals oblanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, 4–7 mm long, patent, acute or obtuse, greenish-white or straw-coloured; stamens 10–16. Follicles 4.5–5.5 mm long, sub-erect, pale yellow or greenish-white. Flowers Dec.–Jan.
VVP. Native to the Mediterranean region, commonly cultivated, known in Victoria from a single record at Point Cook, where growing under a plantation of Eucalyptus cladocalyx.
