Petrophile arcuata Foreman

Spreading shrub to c. 1.2 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or with a few sparse, short, curly hairs. Leaves simple, terete, 10-15 mm long, acute, spreading, slightly curved, held away from branchlets, glabrous, sparsely and very minutely scabrous. Inflorescence ovoid to globose, terminal, sessile, c. 12 mm diam.; involucral bracts few, ovate to oblong, acute, ±glutinous, glabrous; cone scales ovate, acute becoming obtuse, densely villous at base. Flowers c. 12 mm long, deep creamy yellow to yellow, villous. Pollen presenter c. 4 mm long overall, attenuate below the brush; brush c. 3 mm long, yellow, with short, reflexed hairs. Cones ±globose, 10-15 mm diam. Nuts c. 3 mm long.

Grows in open scrub in deep yellow sand, in dense scrub and low scrubby bush on sandplain; also in very open shrub mallee over dense scrub in orange-yellow sand over yellowish brown sandy-clay.