A shrub to 1 m tall, without lignotuber, intricately branched. Stems hirsute and tomentose, reddish. Leaves: petiole 1-2 mm long; lamina linear, flexuose, pinnatipartite with many triangular, acute lobes, 5-17 cm long, 7-15 mm wide, truncate; upper surface hirsute, glabrescent; lower surface tomentose. Inflorescence 2-3 cm long; involucral bracts small, villous. Flowers pale brown to dull orange, with pale hairs; style cream. Perianth 15-16 mm long including limb of 1.5-2 mm, tomentose outside, glabrous or almost so inside. Pistil hooked, 14-15 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter turbinate, 0.5 mm long. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 25, linear to narrowly elliptic, undulate, 15-30 mm long, 5-12 mm high, 3-9 mm wide, hirsute in lower half, glabrous above. Seed broadly obovate, 20-28 mm long; seed body obovate-falcate, 9-10 mm long, 3 mm wide, smooth or slightly rugose.
In clay-loam and sandy loam, sometimes over gravel, on low-lying flats, in shrubland and low woodland; also on sandstone hills in kwongan.
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