Low-growing resprouting shrublet up to 20cm, branches dark-hairy. Leaves 1-foliolate, elliptic, hairy on veins, margins scabrous, stipules glabrous. Flowers a clerical-purple with short white and long black hairs on the calyx.

After: Priscilla Brierly Drewe (1926- ), Keeper of the Hermanus Herbarium from 1983-2006, Honorary President of the Hermanus Botanical Society. Her after-fire research on the Kleinrivier Mountains led to the discovery of this species