Petrophile biternata Meisn.

Shrub to 1.2 m tall. Branchlets minutely tomentose to glabrous. Leaves biternate or pinnate, to c. 6.5 cm long overall; petiole 12-28 mm long; lamina flattened, striate, thick, rigid, pungent, glabrous; lower pinnae sometimes 2-3-lobed, 10-36 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid to globose, terminal, solitary, sessile, 20-25 mm long; involucral bracts short, broad, viscid, glabrous; outer cone scales viscid, ±glabrous; inner scales broad, acuminate, rigid, woolly at base, glabrous at tips. Flowers c. 10 mm long, yellow or creamy yellow, viscid, glabrous. Pollen presenter ridged, fusiform, 3.5-4.5 mm long, yellow, covered with short, erect hairs. Cones ±ovoid, c. 25 mm long. Nuts 4-5 mm long.

Grows in shrubland in laterite, grey sand and gravel, in quartzite soil and in sand heath.