Petrophile anceps R.Br.

Shrub to c. 60 cm tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves linear, flattened, with very narrow, winged margins, pungent, incurved or straight, to c. 11 cm long overall, 2-3 mm wide. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, solitary or sometimes several clustered together, sessile, to c. 20 mm long; involucral bracts greyish white when dried, numerous, linear-subulate, glabrous; cone scales ovate, acuminate, glabrous; margin slightly ciliate. Flowers c. 15 mm long, yellow, villous. Pollen presenter 3-3.5 mm long overall, narrowly turbinate below the brush; brush c. 2.5 mm long, sparsely hirsute. Cones ovoid, c. 25 mm long. Nuts c. 2.5 mm long.

Grows on scrubby ridges, shallow gravelly sand and open heath in coarse sandy loam; also in mallee scrub on sandstone.