Erect shrublet with slender lax branches up to 80cm. Leaves are 2(3)nate; flowers are small to medium, calycine (calyx enlarged and predominant over the corolla), narrowly urn-shaped with spreading lobes; pale yellow to white in Hermanus area, deep yellow is the dominant colour form elsewhere.

Pollinated by bees.

Although luteus means deep yellow, some forms are white to cream.