Shrublet 2–15 cm tall, multi-stemmed, decumbent to prostrate and sometimes forming compact cushions; bark grey and smooth to finely fissured. Leaves spreading, crowded at the tips of branches, sheathing at base; sheath glaucous, 2.2–6.5 × 3–4 mm, subcoriaceous, shoulder rounded to truncate, margin ciliate; lamina coriaceous, glaucous, linear-triangular to broadly linear-triangular, 5.6–32.0 × 0.75–2.00 mm, slightly concave, surfaces minutely verrucose, margin serrulate, with 12–13 teeth per cm, apex triquetrous. Inflorescence an oblong raceme terminal on branches, dense, 9–24 mm long with 3–8 flowers; inflorescence bracts persistent, longer than flower, coriaceous, light green to glaucous, subulate, 7.5– 10.5 × 0.6–1.4 mm at base, verrucose with serrulate margin; flower bract persistent, shorter than flower, coriaceous, broadly ovate, 5–7 × 3.0–4.5 mm, glabrous, margin ciliate, subacute to acute. Flowers sessile. Sepals green to reddish brown, ovate-lanceolate, 4.5–5.5 × 1.5–2.0 mm, equal to shorter than corolla tube, glabrous, ciliate; apex subacute to acute. Corolla white; tube cylindrical, 4.0–6.5 × 2.0– 2.5 mm, glabrous; lobes spreading to reflexed, broadly triangular, shorter than corolla tube, 1.5–2.2 × 1.5–1.8 mm, acute to subacute, adaxial surface papillate, abaxial surface glabrous. Stamens epipetalous, 0.4–0.5 mm long; in upper third of corolla tube, anthers light yellow, oblong, 0.6–0.8 mm long, included. Nectary scales separate, rectangular, 0.7– 0.8 × 0.4–0.8 mm, apex truncate and emarginate to variously toothed, glabrous; ovary ± obovate, 1.4– 1.5 × 1.3–1.5 mm, apex truncate, glabrous; style enclosed, 1.5 mm long, glabrous; stigma 5-lobed. Capsule sessile, light brown, 2.5–3.5 × 1.8–2.0 mm, obovoid, glabrous, enclosed in persistent sepals; style persistent; seed light brown, ovoid, 1 mm long, surface slightly reticulate. FL Dec–Mar; FT Apr– May.

D. recurvo similis sed foliis minute rugosulis vel verrucosis, non apicem versus recurvatis, bracteis florum flore brevioribus, sepalis glabris, ovario apice truncato differt. A D. kirkii foliis angustioribus verrucosis apicibus triquetris et inflorescentia racemosa differt.