Shrub or small tree to 4 m tall, with stout trunk, often of irregular form, fire-tolerant. Bark tessellated or rugose, grey. Leaves alternate but crowded near branchlet tips; petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina narrowly linear, 5-13 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, entire except an obtuse tooth each side of apex; margins revolute; upper surface hirsute, glabrescent; lower surface woolly. Inflorescence 7-15 cm long; involucral bracts closely tomentose, soon falling. Flowers golden, drying dark red-brown; style bright yellow. Perianth 23-26 mm long including limb of 2.5 mm, appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Pistil hooked, 32-37 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter ovoid, 1 mm long. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles up to 35, prominent, elliptic, 15-28 mm long, 8-16 mm high, 8-14 mm wide, slightly rugose, glabrous. Seed obovate, 23-28 mm long; seed body obovate, 11-17 mm long, 9-12 mm wide, rugose.
In rocky, lateritic soil, sometimes at breakaway edges, in shrubland.
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