Erect shrub to 3 m, greyish. Branches granular-tomentose or pubescent with mainly dendritic, non-glandular hairs and scattered glandular hairs.  

Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, almost sessile, 15–25 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, tomentose; juvenile leaves to 13 cm long, 4 cm wide.  

Inflorescence panicle-like, dense, leafy; pedicels 1–6 mm long. Calyx 2–5.5 mm long, sparsely to densely pubescent. Corolla 13–22 mm long, glabrous outside, white, cream or pale yellow, the striations purple; lobes ovate-truncate to almost linear, 3–15 mm long. Stamens 2–5 mm long.  

Capsule globose to broadly ellipsoid, 2.5–8 mm long. Seeds 2.3–3.8 mm long.

Endemic to the Warrumbungle Ranges in North Western Slopes region of N.S.W.  

Grows on rocky slopes in dark sandy soils derived from igneous rocks; common in shrub-land on exposed sites, but occurs sporadically in dry sclerophyll forest.

Distinction form other subspecies

Distinct from subsp. albicans by its longer leaves and corolla and distribution restricted to the Warrumbungle Ranges.

Distinct from subsp. tomentosa by its by its white or cream, rather than yellow, corolla and by the looser indumentum on the branches and leaves in which the hairs are 0.3-0.8 mm long, compared to the close tomentum of subsp. tomentosa in which the hairs are less than 0.3 mm long.