It is an upright, aromatic perennial herb or shrub with pink-purplish or reddish purple flowers.

The capitula are usually in a corymb cluster on lateral branches of 45-80 florets and the involucre 0.8–1.4 cm (0.31–0.55 in) long.

Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, 2–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long, silky with flattened hairs.

[5] In 1981 Clyde Robert Dunlop changed the name to Streptoglossa decurrens and the description was published in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

[7] This species is found growing on rocky soils and hillsides, creek beds and clay depressions in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.