Dense multi-stemmed erect shrub, narrowly spreading, 0.3-2.6 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or appressed-pubescent. Leaves simple-or compound-terete with 2-7 ultimate segments, 1.6-9.5 cm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, tomentose, with ferruginous and white hairs, quickly glabrescent; mucro 1-2 mm long. Inflorescence erect, with 4-10 flowers; rachis simple, 1-2.5 mm long, tomentose; pedicels 8-14 mm long. Perianth 5.5-10 mm long, pink, white at base. Pistil 29-32 mm long; pollen presenter a ±lateral disc. Fruit obliquely ovate, 2.8-3.5 cm long, 1.6-2.2 cm wide, black-pusticulate; apiculum 3-5 mm long; horns 2-3 mm long. Seed 15-24 mm long; wing encircling seed body.
Found in forest, woodland or heathland associated with Eucalyptus, Callitris or Casuarina and sometimes Triodia , in sandy soil or, more rarely, laterite.
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