Inflorescences produce 25–100 dark pink-magenta flowers that bloom August to February in its native range.

Its typical habitat has been reported as "heathland, woodland and open forests of the Otway Ranges through to the snowfields of the Eastern Highlands.

"[1] On 8 July 1805, Jacques Labillardière published a species under the name Candollea armeria.

This specific epithet, however, is not an adjective but a noun in apposition, so the suffix should not be changed with different gender generic names.

Later, Ferdinand von Mueller insisted on using the illegitimate genus Candollea and shifted the Stylidium species back in the late 19th century.