[3] The low, spreading and wiry shrub typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 0.5 metres (0.7 to 1.6 ft)[1] and tends to have horizontal branches.

[3] The species was first formally described by the botanists Richard Sumner Cowan and Bruce Maslin in 1999.

[2] The specific epithet honors Paul G. Wilson who collected the type specimen.

[3] It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Mid West regions of Western Australia.

[1] The range of the species extends from around Eneabba in the north and down to around Badgingarra in the south where it is found growing in sandy or loamy soils usually over laterite and commonly situated on hills or slopes as a part of open heath or mallee woodland communities.