Low shrubs to 0.3 (–0.4) m high, with several to many erect, often little-branched stems from a woody rootstock. Young stems shortly pubescent with or without longer spreading and overtopping pilose simple hairs. Leaves sessile, spreading, often crowded at the ends of the stems, elliptic or oblong to obovate, (10–) 15–25 (–35) mm long, (3–) 4–7 (–10) mm wide; margins entire, flat or narrowly recurved; adaxial surface dark green, sparsely pilose with long, white tubercle-based simple hairs 1.5–4 mm long (the tubercles often especially prominent along the leaf margins); abaxial surface greyish, similar in indumentum to the adaxial; apex obtuse, sometimes bluntly mucronate. Flowers single, mostly terminal to main stems, sessile. Bracts 3–6, dark brown to almost black, scarious, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, 2–4 mm long, glabrous to sparsely pilose, the lowermost often grading into reduced leaves. Sepals broadly ovate, 6–8 (–10) mm long, glabrous and somewhat scarious especially towards the apex; midribs not prominent; outer sepals obtuse or shortly apiculate; inner sepals broader and more scarious than the outer; buds obtuse. Petals 5, yellow, broadly obovate, 10–20 mm long, deeply emarginate. Stamens 55–80, distributed ± evenly around the carpels or with narrow gaps at the carpels; filaments free, 2–2.8 mm long, not closely appressed to the carpels; anthers oblong to rectangular, 1–1.8 mm long, dehiscing by short, introrse, longitudinal slits at the apex; staminodes absent. Carpels 3; ovaries globular, glabrous; styles excentrically spreading-erect from near the carpel apex, 2.6–3.5 mm long. Ovules 2 per carpel. Seeds not seen.
Grows in kwongan heath, Banksia woodland and open jarrah forest with a heathy understorey, in brown to pale grey clayey sands associated with laterite duricrusts.
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