Shrub to 4 m, without lignotuber. Stems appressed-pubescent, very soon glabrous. Leaves ±sessile, broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, recurved, 3-9 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, obtuse to acute, pungent, glabrous above, closely tomentose below; margins slightly recurved, serrate almost to leaf base; teeth to 10 each side, triangular. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts narrowly triangular to linear, acute, 10-13 mm long, usually recurved; outer bracts glabrous, grading to appressed-pubescent inner bracts; flowers c. 50-70 per head. Perianth 18-24 mm long, pale yellow, curled-hirsute above base, hirsute distally; limb 2-3.5 mm long, coarsely hirsute or glabrous. Pistil gently incurved, 20-26 mm long, cream, glabrous except long hairs above ovary; pollen presenter slightly thickened, 0.8-1.5 mm long, obscurely ribbed. Follicles to 7 per head, ovate-oblong, 8-13 mm long, ±glabrous.Grows in lateritic soil, rarely in sand or clay-loam, in eucalypt forest and woodland. New growth viscid. There are two subspecies.
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