Prostrate shrub, with lignotuber. Stems short, underground, covered with linear, rusty-tomentose prophylls. Leaves: petiole 4-6 cm long; lamina narrowly cuneate, 13-35 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, pungent, tomentose below; margins recurved, dentate; teeth 20-60 each side, 1-2 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, succeeding ones closely successive; involucral bracts linear, 17-22 mm long, attenuate, villous in lower 2/3, distally hirsute and tomentose; flowers 20-50 per head. Perianth 25-30 mm long, yellow, villous with curled hairs above base, glabrous above except an apical tuft of long twisted hairs; limb 6-8 mm long. Pistil 24-27 mm long, yellow, glabrous; pollen presenter tapering, scarcely delimited at base, 3-4 mm long, smooth. Follicles ±oblong, with upper margin oblique, 13-20 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, appressed-hairy.
Grows in sandy soil, near Mogumber in kwongan, near Perth on a winter-damp flat in low kwongan with Kingia , and in the Whicher Ra. in Banksia low open woodland
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