Shrub or tree, 1.5-7 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, 6-20 (-30) cm long, usually irregularly pinnatipartite with 2-7 lobes, sometimes (especially on sucker growth) entire; simple leaves and lobes linear, 4-15 cm long, 0.7-2 mm wide; margins revolute to midvein; surfaces dissimilar with lower surface 2-grooved and lamina enclosed except at sinuses, subsericeous. Conflorescence terminal, erect, paniculately 2-6-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 2-6 cm long, ?subsynchronous. Flowers transverse on rachis. Flower colour: perianth and style pale cream to yellow. Perianth sparsely villous or subsericeous to almost glabrous outside, glabrous or with scattered erect hairs inside. Nectary arcuate. Pistil 10.5-13 mm long, glabrous or with loose hairs about ovary and base of style, soon falling; pollen-presenter strongly oblique, conical. Follicle compressed-ovoid to subdiscoid, apiculate, 10-17 mm long, rugulose, glabrous, not viscid.
Grows in various habitats, mulga and mixed shrublands, and Triodia associations, flat to rocky situations, usually in red lateritic loam soils.
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