Open shrub 1-2 m high, with emergent arching flowering branches. Branchlets glabrous, glaucous. Leaves 0.7-3 cm long, deeply and divaricately tripartite to biternate, often with terminal lobe simple and lateral lobes 2-or 3-lobed; ultimate lobes linear to subulate, 0.5-2 cm long, 0.7-1.8 mm wide; leaf rachis reflexed at lobe node; apices pungent; margins angularly revolute; lower surface subsericeous, enclosed except for midvein, or sometimes partly exposed at sinuses. Unit conflorescence acropetal, loosely subglobose; floral rachis glabrous. Flower colour: perianth green in bud becoming cream with a green to yellow limb; style white. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 3.3-4.5 mm long; stylar swelling narrowly ovoid to-ellipsoidal; pollen-presenter broadly conical, base much wider than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, c. 10 mm long, ±smooth.
Grows in heath, shrubland, and shrubby woodland in sandy soils, sometimes over laterite.
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