Similar to A. grevilleoides . Shrub 0.5-1.5 m high; penultimate branchlets woody. Branchlets 2-5 cm long; elongate articles 2-4, terete, 8-16 mm long, glabrous; teeth 4, erect, with broad whitish translucent margins at least towards apex, 1.5-2.0 mm long. Male spikes 4-7 mm long; anther 0.5-0.6 mm long. Cones subcylindrical to globose, with long coarse hairs; cone body 11-25 mm long, 9-11 mm diam.; bracteoles thin, long-acuminate, often awn-like (c. 1 mm long) and hooked, with thick pyramidal protuberance separating from bracteole near base, with short curved awn 1-2 mm long. Samara 6-7 mm long, glabrous, brown to black.