Shrub to 4 m tall, without lignotuber, sometimes a small tree to 6 m. Bark smooth with lenticels. Stems pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves whorled; petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina pinnatipartite, broadly linear (in outline), 3-11 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, retuse; lobes linear, obtuse, rather soft; margins revolute; upper surface pubescent, glabrescent; lower surface woolly. Inflorescence 6-9 cm long; involucral bracts narrow, pubescent, persistent. Flowers pale brown with grey-brown limb; styles metallic red with cream apex. Perianth 27-31 mm long including limb of 3 mm, slender, hirsute outside, glabrous inside except hairs on margins in upper half. Pistil hooked, 31-40 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly ovoid, 0.3 mm long. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 60, narrowly elliptic, 17-25 mm long, 5-10 mm high, 4-7 mm wide, slightly rugose on valves, pubescent. Seed obovate, 19-20 mm long; seed body cuneate, 8-9 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, irregularly rugose.
In shallow sand over laterite, in woodland; in shale in gullies, in woodland; and among rocks on mountains, in kwongan.
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