They are fragrant and can be a range of colours: blue, greyish, white or pink.

The flower's corolla tube is short, and there is a band of yellow (often with darker outline) horizontally across the three bottom tepals.

The highest leaves sheath most of the stem, while the grooved lowest leaf is the longest, being at least as high as the inflorescence.

Its range extends south into the Overberg region as far as the coast near Cape Infanta.

This species usually occurs in Fynbos vegetation, in rocky mountainous or exposed hill-slope habitats.