Leaves are succulent and without hair, from 0.2cm to 2.5cm long, straight and sometimes cylindrical with a curved point at the tip.

[8][9][10] Although Kippistia is currently considered a monotypic taxon, in 1872, John Miers used the same name to describe some South American plants in the Celastraceae.

Miers was aware that Ferdinand von Mueller had already applied the name to some very different Australian plants.

[15] In New South Wales to the West and North-West of Weelah Forest (Condobolan area).

[16][17] Kippistia suaedifolia flowers from August to November and is usually fairly abundant in the populations where it is found.