Small shrub 20-80 cm tall. Branchlets pale reddish brown to mid-brown to greyish, tomentose to villous. Leaves crowded on branchlets, pinnate; petiole to c. 2 mm long; lamina terete, grooved, 10-12 mm long, with acute apices, minutely scabrous, tomentose to villous, glabrescent. Inflorescence globular, axillary, sessile, crowded towards ends of branchlets, to c. 25-30 mm diam., surrounded by leaves; involucral bracts narrowly ovate to linear, villous; cone scales lanceolate to linear, villous to tomentose. Flowers very slender, tending to droop, to c. 25 mm long, pink to purple, grey-hirsute. Pollen presenter 1-1.5 mm long, ±fusiform, covered with minute, reflexed hairs, slightly swollen at base, minutely constricted near mid-point; apical part slightly expanded then tapering to stigmatic cup. Cones ±globular, to c. 5 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 2 mm long.
Grows in sandplain heath or shrubland, in white, yellow or grey sand often with a high gravel content.
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