[1][2] Naked cylindrical hydranth up to about 70mm long, covered by densely packed short capitate tentacles.

Basal part carries a single whorl of about 17 long unbranched blastostyles, with gonophores near the hydranth.

[1] Endemic to South Africa, known only from the Cape Peninsula[1][2] and Port Elizabeth in 10 to 30 m of water.

The base has a ring of long floppy reddish tentacles that drape over the substrate.

Often found on pore-plated false corals Laminopora jellyae.