Shrub to 4 m, without lignotuber. Bark fissured, hard, grey. Stems tomentose. Leaves: petiole 4-6 mm long; lamina narrowly cuneate, 5-16 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, truncate; margins recurved, serrate; both surfaces densely tomentose-hirsute, glabrescent on upper surface. Inflorescence usually on short lateral branchlet, sometimes terminal, 5-10 cm long; flowers firmly packed; involucral bracts tomentose to villous, many persistent to flowering. Flowers pale yellow, those at apex commonly pale brown; styles cream. Perianth 20-24 mm long including limb of 2-2.5 mm, hirsute outside and inside. Pistil curved, 23-27 mm long, hirsute; pollen presenter not thickened, 1 mm long, finely ribbed. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 25, elliptic, 22-35 mm long, 15-20 mm high, 10-16 mm wide, warted, tomentose, glabrescent. Seed broadly obovate, 25-30 mm long; seed body obovate-cuneate, 9-10 mm long, 10-11 mm wide, smooth inside, somewhat rugose outside.
Grows in white sand or sandy loam, commonly on the edges of depressions, in kwongan and low open woodland.
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