Plant with vertical stilt roots descending from stem up to 5 cm above soil; stems 1-4 cm long. Leaves flat, 10-20 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, green, glabrous, or sometimes with sparse white minute stiff dendritic appressed or spreading marginal hairs. Inflorescence a simple, globular head, many-flowered; scape 15-25 cm long, usually exceeding leaves; bract median, leafy, glabrous. Perianth 5.5-11 mm long, shortly tomentose, pale lemon yellow outside, ageing to pale brick red; lobes 4-7.5 mm long, golden inside towards base, white outside, claw-like in fruit. Stamens uniseriate; anthers 1.5-4 mm long, longer than filaments. Style 4-8 mm long.
Grows prolifically in disturbed habitats in sand in low heath, occasionally with scattered emergents of Banksia attenuata , B. menziesii , Eucalyptus todtiana and Nuytsia floribunda .
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