The leaf characteristics are very variable but most commonly the shape is narrow elliptic to egg-shaped sometimes clustered and overlapping and other times scattered.

The flowers are borne singly or in groups of up to 4 in leaf axils on stalks mostly 5.5–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) long and usually densely hairy.

Flowering occurs from May to October and is followed by fruit which are narrow oval-shaped to cone-shaped with a pointed end, 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) long with a hairy surface.

[2][3][4][6][7]The species was first formally described in 1862 by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in the third volume of his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.

[6][7] It grows best in well-drained soil in a sunny position, rarely requires watering, even during a long dry spell and is moderately frost tolerant.