Erect to spreading shrub, 2-2.5 m high. Leaves subsecund, often gently upcurved, 6-13 cm long, rarely entire, usually pinnatipartite to almost pinnatisect with 3-13 ascending lobes, sometimes lowermost primary lobes bisect; simple leaves and ultimate lobes linear, 3-13 cm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, rectangular in cross-section, often gently incurved, pungent or almost so; margins angularly twice refracted about longitudinal veins; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, pubescent in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 45-115 mm long. Flower colour: perianth yellowish brown to fawn; style scarlet to orange-red. Perianth subsericeous to tomentose outside. Pistil 22-25 mm long; ovary sessile or subsessile; style glabrous except for a few hairs close to ovary. Follicle 10-15 mm long, subsericeous to subtomentose.
Grows in mallee heath, open eucalypt woodland and shrubland, in granitic or lateritic sandy or loamy soils.
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