[1] The stem has a cream or pale brown colour with brittle stripes usually visible in the outer blaze.

The inflorescence is cymose, often several in the upper axils forming a terminal cluster of five to thirty flowers that are up to 40 millimetres (1.57 in) long.

[4] It is found in along watercourses in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia between the Prince Regent National Park and Wyndham where it grows in rocky sandstone-based soils.

[1] The plants range extends into the Northern Territory,[2] from the Western Australian border as far east as the Arnhem Land plateau and south to about Pine Creek.

[3] The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859 as part of the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.