Shrub to c. 2 m tall. Branchlets tomentose to villous, glabrescent. Leaves ±sparsely spreading, to c. 4 cm overall; petiole to 20 mm long; lamina obliquely ovate-rhomboid, rigid, flattened, prominently veined, pungent, deeply 3-lobed; lobes often further divided, hairy, glabrescent; pinnae 5-20 mm long. Inflorescence ±ovoid, sessile, axillary, numerous, crowded near ends of branchlets, to c. 8 mm long; involucral bracts few, deciduous; cone scales silky-villous with tip glabrous. Flowers to c. 22 mm long, mostly grey to pink, villous. Pollen presenter to c. 3.5 mm long, narrowly obovoid or clavate, sometimes turbinate below the brush; brush c. 1.5 mm long, yellow, sometimes cream, white or mauve, glabrous or minutely hairy. Cones ±ovoid, usually 10-14 mm long. Nuts flattened, to c. 6 mm long, winged.
Grows on gravelly granitic slopes with outcropping boulders, in heath over laterite, sometimes with clay and granite, sometimes with gravel and with Eucalyptus marginata /E. calophylla in shallow granitic soil.
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