Its leaves are stalkless, have their base partly wrapped around the stem, oval to egg-shaped, 0.8–2.5 cm (0.3–1 in) long and 5–10 mm (0.2–0.4 in) wide.

[2] The flowers are white and mauve, purple, lilac or violet and are usually arranged singly in upper leaf axils on a stalk 1–3 mm (0.04–0.1 in) long and covered with glandular hairs.

The five petals are joined to form a tube 6–8 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long with a few hairs on the outside and glabrous inside except for a densely hairy ring around the ovary.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 1889 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Chloanthes teckiana and published the description in the Victorian Naturalist.

[5] Dasymalla teckiana occurs in the south-west of Western Australia, mostly north of the Great Eastern Highway, as far east as Kalgoorlie[2] in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Dampierland and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions growing in a range of soils near granite outcrops.