Robust shrub or tree to 8 m tall, fire tolerant. Bark thick, verrucose, orange-brown. Stems tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long; lamina narrowly obovate to oblong, 3-22 cm long, usually 1-2 cm wide, truncate; margins not recurved, serrate; upper surface tomentose, rusty, glabrescent; lower surface tomentose, with nerves glabrescent, and pits woolly. Inflorescence terminal, 4-20 cm long; involucral bracts tomentose, soon falling. Flowers pale yellow to greenish cream, including styles. Perianth 35-45 mm long including limb of 5 mm, appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Pistil curved, 35-45 mm long, papillose in lowest third, otherwise glabrous; pollen presenter clavate-conical, 1 mm long, faintly ribbed. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 25, massive, elliptic, 30-45 mm long, 20-35 mm high, 20-35 mm wide; valves semi-circular, smooth, tomentose. Seeds obovate, 40-47 mm long; seed body cuneate, 10-15 mm long, 11-16 mm wide, smooth both sides or the outside pitted; wing curved, 20-32 mm wide.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 8 m tall. The flowers are in a cylinder shaped spike. They are 10-15 cm long by 8 cm wide.
Occurs on near-coastal consolidated sand dunes, in swales, on flats and sometimes on sandstone, in low woodland or tall shrubland (Wallum).
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Near-coastal consolidated sand dunes, in swales, on flats and sometimes on sandstone, in low woodland or tall shrubland.
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in swampy heath.
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