Shrub to 2 m or tree to 10 m tall, with lignotuber or fire-tolerant trunk. Bark thick, verrucose, friable, pale grey-orange. Stems pubescent. Leaves narrowed to petiole up to 1 cm long; lamina linear, 4-27 cm long, 5-16 mm wide, truncate; margins slightly recurved, obtusely and shortly serrate; upper surface hirsute, glabrescent; lower surface tomentose. Inflorescence terminal, 5-26 cm long; involucral bracts hirsute, viscid, persistent. Flowers bright yellow including styles. Perianth 15-22 mm long including limb of 3-4.5 mm, glabrous. Pistil gently curved, 15-22 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter narrow, 1 mm long, smooth. Old flowers persistent, with styles curled against axis. Follicles broadly elliptic, 20-35 mm long, 10-15 mm high, 14-20 mm wide, smooth, densely hirsute, often darkly mottled. Seed obovate, 22-26 mm long; seed body cuneate, 12-14 mm long, 13-14 mm wide, smooth inside, rugose outside.
Grows in deep sand, sometimes over limestone or laterite, in kwongan, shrubland and woodland.
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