Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Branchlets pale brown to reddish brown to grey, minutely hairy when young, glabrescent. Leaves simple or deeply divided into 2-3 lobes; petiole not well-defined, to c. 3 cm long; lamina linear to narrowly obovate, flat, to c. 15.5 cm long, mostly glabrous; apex obtuse with a well-defined callous or acute point; leaf base often tapered gradually almost to stem; midrib prominent beneath; longitudinal striations and main veins often clearly visible on both surfaces. Inflorescence globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, to c. 25 mm diam.; involucral bracts few, deltoid, villous; cone scales ±obovate, the base often narrowed, densely villous; apex deciduous, acuminate. Flowers to c. 15 mm long, yellow, silky-villous. Pollen presenter to c. 3.5 mm long, fusiform; basal part glabrous; brush glabrous or minutely papillose in longitudinal lines. Cones globose to ovoid-oblong, to c. 26 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to 3-4 mm long, villous.
Common on sandstone hills, in shallow loam over laterite with Eucalyptus marginata and Casuarinaceae, in heath in skeletal sandy soil, or in shrubland in sand or sandy clays over laterite.
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