Shrub 0.6-2 m high. Branchlets glabrous or subsericeous. Leaves dorsiventral, ovate, to oblong-elliptic in outline, 2.5-6.5 cm long, 15-40 mm wide, coarsely dentate to pinnatifid with 5-13 marginal teeth or shallow lobes; margins flat to slightly recurved; lower surface sericeous or glabrous and glaucous. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, simple or to 3-branched; unit conflorescence decurved, strongly to loosely secund, basipetal; ultimate floral rachis 15-40 mm long, glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style pale cream to yellowish cream. Perianth glabrous inside. Pistil 6.5-8.5 mm long; style dorsally exposed but scarcely exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter erect, conical with crenate basal flange. Follicle ovoid to ellipsoidal, 8-12 mm long, rugulose.
Grows usually in open eucalypt (Jarrah, Wandoo) forest or woodland, in gravelly, sandy or loamy soils over laterite, granite or ironstone.
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