Erect to low spreading shrub 0.3-1.7 m tall; branches often columnar. Branchlets subsericeous. Leaves dorsiventral, 2-7 (-11) cm long, sometimes a few entire and broadly linear, usually divided; divided leaves (sometimes dimorphic) variable, sublinear to elliptic with 5-9 (-19) triangular marginal teeth or lobes, or narrowly to broadly cuneate and apically 3-5 (-11)-fid, or deeply and divaricately ternate to biternate; ultimate lobes triangular to linear, 0.2-2 cm long, 1-4 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; lower surface usually exposed, subsericeous to glabrous. Conflorescences axillary or terminal on short lateral branchlets, often aggregated along branches, spreading, simple or 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence umbelloid, basipetal, c. 1 cm long; ultimate floral rachis 0.2-0.5 mm long, tomentose, subsericeous or glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: white to cream. Perianth papillose inside. Pistil 5-7.5 mm long; style weakly exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter erect to slightly oblique, conical with distinct spreading basal flange. Follicle obovoid to ellipsoidal, 7.5-9.5 mm long, faintly wrinkled.
Grows in various habitats including open Jarrah forest, shrubland, and swampy heath, in sandy to loamy usually acid soils.
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