A low-growing, erect to spreading shrub to 60cm in height, widespread in Victoria and variable across its range. Along the Jan Juc cliff top it is found in Coastal Heathland toward Bells Beach.
Leaves are dull green, narrow-linear, variable in hairiness and with leaf margins strongly revolute (curved downward and in toward the midrib).
Flowers are yellow with five petals and five green leaf-like sepals; mostly sessile and produced terminally at the ends of branchlets. Flowers appear spring to early summer.
Guinea Flowers are known as important food plants for native moths and butterflies.