This small, upright-growing shrub is confined to the coastal heathland areas of our coast where it ranges from 30cm to a maximum of half a metre in height. Elsewhere in Victoria like the Grampians where it favours deep, sandy moist soils along creek banks it can get up to a metre. Flowering is profuse beginning in late winter through to mid summer. Flowers are a deep lilac pink that hang in a pendulous manner from fine flower stems.
Leaves can be alternate and opposite but more typically in whorls of 3-5. Leaf margins vary from flat to undulate and glabrous but occasionally sparsely hairy around the margins.