Plant tufted. Leaves flat, 17-36 cm long, 1-1.6 mm wide, yellowish-green, becoming yellow at base; lamina glabrous; margins with short appressed dark brown bristles in 2 rows. Inflorescence loosely cymose, with 1-6 flowers; scape simple or 1-or 2-branched, 1-4 cm tall, much shorter than leaves; bracts 5-21 mm long, glabrous, brown, scarious; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Perianth 13-18 mm long, tomentose with hairs to 1.5 mm long, lemon yellow outside and on inside lobe margins, otherwise golden yellow inside; lobes 6-10 mm long. Stamens inserted 5-7 mm above ovary, erect; anthers 4-5.5 mm long; filaments c. 1 mm long. Style 9.5-11.5 mm long.
Grows in sand over laterite or clay in low heath with scattered emergent Lambertia inermis , Banksia media , Eucalyptus tetragona and other mallees.
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