Shrub to 0.7 m high, erect to spreading, suckering, with short curved and long straight simple hairs and glandular hairs, the glands cream-coloured. Leaves sessile, broadly ovate-oblong to obovate in outline, deeply pinnatifid almost to midrib, the lobes oblong-cuneate and sometimes again lobed, 1.5–5 cm long, to 2.5 cm wide, hirsute and tomentose and with sparse glandular hairs. Pedicels 2–3 mm long. Sepals 2.5–3 mm long. Petals orbicular, 4–6 mm long including claw; claw 1.5–2 mm long. Stamens 4.5–5 mm long. Cocci inflated, 6–7 mm long, chartaceous, densely hirsute and with sparse glandular hairs.
Grows in red sandy loam or on red sand plains, usually associated with spinifex, sometimes on sandhills near coast, occasionally in lateritic soils.
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