Macrozamia humilis D.L.Jones

Plants acaulescent; stem 18-28 cm diam.; 2-7 leaves in crown. Leaves 35-65 cm long, moderately keeled, with 60-90 pinnae, mid-to dark green or grey-green, dull to semi-glossy; petiole 9-16 cm long, 6-8 mm wide at lowest pinna; rachis not to moderately spirally twisted. Basal pinnae not reducing to spines. Median pinnae simple or, rarely, dichotomously branched, 10-18 cm long, 4-7 mm wide (ultimate segments 2-3 mm wide), distinctly discolorous; margins flat; apex entire, not spinescent. Pollen cones fusiform, 14-19 cm long, 4.5-5.5 cm diam.; microsporophyll lamina 14-20 mm long, 11-18 mm wide; apical spine 1-10 mm long. Seed cones ovoid, 10-15 cm long, 6-8 cm diam.; megasporophyll with an expanded, peltate apex 40-50 mm wide and 15-20 mm long; apical spine 2-25 mm long. Seeds ovoid, 25-31 mm long, 22-26 mm wide; sarcotesta red.

Grows in low, dry sclerophyll woodland in sandy soil over acid granite.

The seeds are eaten after extensive processing.