Spreading to straggling shrubs 0.2–0.3(–0.5) m high, rather intricately but openly branched, multi-stemmed at base and probably resprouting after fire; young branchlets sparsely white-woolly at first, soon glabrous. Leaves mostly crowded at stem apices, erect at first then spreading, oblong, 2–3(–5) mm long, 0.6–1.2 mm wide, the margins revolute and meeting each other, obscuring the abaxial lamina and the rather weak, sunken midrib; petiole 0.6–1 mm long, the hypopetiole dark, ± glabrous and forming a peg on the stem when the leaves are mature, the epipetiole very short and densely white-woolly; adaxial lamina minutely muricate, glabrous except at the base where there are dense, curled-woolly, white hairs when young; abaxial surface and midrib (usually visible by dissection only) densely white-woolly; apex obtuse and pungently apiculate. Flowers sessile, terminal on short-shoots, closely subtended by crowded leaves; flower-subtending bracts 5–8, reddish brown, scarious, triangular, acute, the primary bract 2–2.5 mm long, the secondary bracts smaller. Sepals ovate, 4–5 mm long, sparsely to moderately pubescent with flexuose, sub-appressed to spreading hairs; midribs not prominent; outer sepals pungently acuminate to shortly mucronate; inner sepals similar to the outer but less acuminate and broader. Petals 5, yellow, obovate, 6–9 mm long, deeply emarginate. Stamens 10, all on one side of the gynoecium and curving over it like a hand of bananas; filaments 0.5–0.8 mm long; anthers rectangular, 1.5–2 mm long, dehiscing by introrse, longitudinal slits. Staminodes absent. Carpels 2; ovaries compressed-globular, densely pubescent; styles curving excentrically from the carpel apex, 1.2–1.5 mm long. Ovules 4 per carpel. Fruiting carpels and seeds not seen.