[2] The species grows as a slow-growing, multi-stemmed, lignotuberous, evergreen shrub up to 1–2 m in height.

Each fleshy, purple fruit is about 10 mm wide, enclosing a single seed.

It is an understorey plant of open woodland, especially dry, eucalypt-dominated, sclerophyll communities on poor, sandstone-based soils.

[1] The species has been listed under Australia's EPBC Act as Critically Endangered.

The main threat comes from gross land disturbance from open-cut coal mining and clay extraction, particularly from the dumping of overburden.