[4] Dicrastylis linearifolia is a many branched shrub, growing from 1 m to 3 m high, on red sands, on sandplains.

Its stems are roughly circular in cross section, and have no peltate scales.

The calyx has five lobes (1-1.7 mm long), and is covered in dendritic hairs, and the white to cream corolla is 4.5-6.5 mm long, with no dots or stripes in its throat.

[1] It is found in Beard's Eremaean and South-West Provinces.

[1] It was first described by Ahmad Abid Munir in 1978 as Dicrastylis linearifolia.