Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets often reddish, pubescent. Leaves simple and linear or 2-3-lobed to pinnatisect; petiole not clearly defined; lamina flat, to c. 5-11 cm long, acute (prickly); undivided part up to 5 cm long; lateral pinnae often variously lobed, mostly glabrous or minutely hairy. Inflorescence globose, terminal or sometimes axillary, sessile, profuse, solitary, to c. 30-40 mm diam.; involucral bracts ±ovate, pubescent; cone scales broad, truncate, imbricate, villous outside almost to the short, narrow apex. Flowers c. 10-14 mm long, yellow, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 3.5 mm long; basal part papillose, scarcely swollen, constricted near mid-point then dilated into globose part; apical part glabrous, scarcely swollen except for stigmatic cup. Cones globose, to c. 25 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 4 mm long, villous.
Often on sandstone ridges, mostly in sand or sandy soil, in heath, dry to moist sclerophyll forest or woodland.
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