Shrub 0.5-2 m high, often rhizomatous. Branchlets subsericeous or occasionally tomentose. Leaves 1.5-5 cm long, with 3-7 divaricate primary lobes, these often again 2-or 3-partite; leaf rachis deflexed at each node; ultimate lobes linear to subterete, 0.5-4.5 cm long, 0.4-1.2 mm wide; apices pungent; margins tightly and usually angularly revolute, enclosing lower surface except for midveins; lower surface 2-grooved. Unit conflorescence acropetal, dome-shaped to loosely subglobose, shortly cylindrical or subconical; floral rachis tomentose at base, often glabrous above. Flower colour: perianth cream with limb yellow; style white. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 4-6 mm long; stylar swelling ovoid to ellipsoidal; pollen-presenter slightly oblique at base, truncate-conical to subcylindrical, base distinctly wider than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal to slightly obovoid, (5-) 7.5-9 mm long, rugose and colliculate.
Grows in heath, shrubland or mallee shrubland, usually in sandy calcareous to acid soils; some tendency to colonise disturbed ground.
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