 The 4 stamens are enclosed in the petal tube although 2 may be the same length as it.Flowering occurs from March to December after rain and is followed by fruit which are oval-shaped to cone-shaped with a pointed end, long with a hairy, wrinkled surface.The species was first formally described in 1870 by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in the seventh volume of his "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae".