Prostrate, spreading shrub, to 1 m or more diam. Branchlets reddish, pubescent. Leaves variously divided into linear lobes; petiole to c. 6 cm long; lamina flat, to c. 4.5 cm long, acute, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent, minutely scabrous. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal, sessile, solitary, to c. 20-35 mm diam.; involucral bracts ovate, ±acuminate, sparsely hairy, usually with a short, marginal fringe of hairs; cone scales numerous, imbricate, broad, truncate, villous to woolly, except for deciduous apex. Flowers to c. 12 mm long, yellow, glabrous except for a tuft of hairs on apex of each tepal. Pollen presenter to c. 4 mm long; basal part slightly swollen, minutely papillose, constricted near mid-point then dilated into a globose part; apical part scarcely swollen, glabrous. Cones ±globose, to c. 20 mm diam. Nuts ovoid, beaked, to c. 3 mm long, villous.
Sometimes in open grassy areas, mostly in heath and dry sclerophyll forest, often in association with Allocasuarina nana ; usually grows in sand or sandy soils.
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