Shrub, 1-2 m tall, lignotuberous. Branchlets densely villous. Leaves very crowded, erect, arranged in cylindrical whorls about stem, oblanceolate or spathulate, 1.2-3.2 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, attenuate or rounded, entire, densely velutinous with longer hairs or densely hirsute, becoming scabrous above. Inflorescence with 20-36 flowers; involucre 6-7 mm long; rachis 2-3.5 mm long, densely villous; pedicels 5-8 mm long. Perianth 2.2-3.5 mm long, white. Pistil 4-7 mm long; pollen presenter an erect cone. Fruit ovate, 1.5-2 cm long, 0.7-0.9 cm wide, finely rugose, glabrous or pubescent. Seed elliptic, 15-18 mm long; wing narrowly and fully down both sides of seed body.
Occurs in coastal sand heath, Banksia attenuata sand plain, open heath on laterite and Jarrah forest.
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