Shrub or tree to 10 m, without lignotuber, usually much-branched. Bark roughly fissured, grey. Stems tomentose. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-10 mm long; lamina narrowly cuneate, 4-12 cm long, 7-20 mm wide, truncate; margins slightly recurved, shortly serrate; both surfaces pubescent or hirsute, glabrescent except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence usually on short lateral branchlet, sometimes terminal, 6-16 cm long; involucral bracts tomentose, falling early. Flowers golden yellow, with limb often brown; styles cream. Perianth 32-38 mm long including limb of 3-4 mm, pubescent outside with glabrous limb, glabrous inside. Pistil gently curved, 33-40 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter ovoid, less than 1 mm long, obscurely ribbed. Old flowers long-persistent. Follicles up to 70, often concealed, elliptic, 15-25 mm long, 8-14 mm high, 8-11 mm wide, warted, sparsely hirsute, glabrescent. Seed obovate, 25-34 mm long; seed body obovate, 10-12 mm long, 5-7 mm wide, slightly rugose on both sides.
Grows in sand, loam and clay, sometimes over limestone or granite, in kwongan, shrubland or open woodland.
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