Flowers are pink or white with red spots or lines at the individual petal bases.

The petals are vertically paired and will fold over to meet each other at night or in adverse weather conditions.

[1][2][3] This species was first described by Robert Brown in his 1810 Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

The same species was also described as Stylidium lindleyanum in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder, before being later reduced to synonymy with this current and older name.

ecorne was described as a variety on the basis of the absence of a nectary spur and the fact that they produced pure colonies.