Dense prickly shrub 0.6-2.8 m high. Leaves 4-7.5 cm long, divaricately tripartite to biternate; primary lobes entire to 3-partite; ultimate lobes linear-subterete, 0.5-5 cm long; 0.8-1.1 mm wide, pungent; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for very prominent midvein; grooves ±lateral (lobes and rachis almost dipleural), packed with slender straight hairs. Unit conflorescence erect on a sometimes pendulous branchlet, sometimes gently incurved, secund to subsecund; floral rachis 35-70 mm long. Flower colour: perianth light yellow to light red or red-orange; style light orange to bright red, with a greenish tip. Perianth subsericeous outside. Pistil 27-28 mm long; stipe 3.3-4.3 mm long; style usually glabrous or sometimes with appressed hairs extending for up to 5 mm above ovary. Follicle 10-13 mm long, subsericeous.
Grows in heath, mallee scrub or open shrub mallee in sandy soils over laterite or deep sand, often on rises.
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