Petrophile chrysantha Meisn.

Erect shrub to c. 1 m tall. Branchlets and leaves tomentose-pubescent, glabrescent; hairs long, fine, scattered. Leaves crowded along branchlets, 5-20 mm long overall; petiole 1-4 mm long; lamina pinnate, terete, minutely scabrous, pungent; pinnae 1-10 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, sessile, c. 10 mm long; involucral bracts broad, imbricate, ±obtuse or with a small tip, sparsely hairy; margin ciliate; cone scales similar with inner ones becoming narrower and more hairy on outer surface. Flowers to c. 14 mm long, cream to dark yellow, densely hairy. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 3 mm long, yellow, ±glabrous, or with a few reflexed hairs. Cones ±globose to ovoid, c. 10 mm diam. Nuts c. 4 mm long overall, winged.

Grows in shrubland and woodland in white, yellow and grey sand which is often gravelly.