 The white to pale mauve corolla is 10–15 mm long, and has purple spots in its throat.French naturalist Jacques Labillardière described the Victorian Christmas bush in volume 2 of his "Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen" in 1806, from a specimen collected in Van Diemens Land (Tasmania).The specific epithet is derived from the Greek words "lasios" "hairy" and "anthos" "flower".