Petrophile aspera C.A.Gardner ex Foreman

Low shrub 0.2-1.3 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves simple, terete, shortly acute, often curled at apex or slightly twisted over entire length, 15-30 cm long, scabrous. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, sessile, to 30 mm long; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate; cone scales broad, ±circular to broadly rhomboid, acuminate, with apex sometimes reflexed, glabrous. Flowers c. 20 mm long, pale pink, creamy white, white, or pale yellow, with a sweetish scent, villous. Pollen presenter c. 5 mm long overall, turbinate below the brush; brush 3-3.5 mm long, densely tomentose-villous. Cones ±ellipsoidal, to 25 mm long. Nuts c. 2.5 mm long.

Grows in low open woodland with heath and in low open shrubland of Proteaceae-Myrtaceae species in sandy laterite and on sandplains.