It is a ground cover or ascending perennial or annual herb with bluish purple or pink flowers.

Streptoglossa cylindriceps is a short-lived, perennial or prostrate herb with faintly aromatic, glandular leaves and stems covered in soft, thin hairs.

Flowering occurs most months of the year and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, curved, ribbed, 3.5–5 mm (0.14–0.20 in) long and densely covered with silky, flattened hairs.

[2][3][4] Streptoglossa cylindriceps was first formally described in 1981 by Clyde Robert Dunlop and the description was published in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

[7] This streptoglossa grows in drier regions in a variety of situations and soils including red sand or clay, floodplains, rocky creeks and occasionally flooded swamps.