Petrophile cyathiforma Foreman

Shrub 30-65 cm tall. Branchlets covered with short, straight hairs, glabrescent. Leaves simple, terete, spreading, 10-15 mm long, pungent, sometimes slightly recurved, minutely scabrous to almost smooth and glabrous. Inflorescence cup-shaped, terminal, sessile, to c. 15 mm diam.; involucral bracts imbricate, narrowly ovate, acuminate, persistent, glutinous, mostly cohering, ciliate to fimbriate; cone scales narrowly ovate, densely villous outside; tips glabrous. Flowers c. 20 mm long, bright yellow, pilose, glabrous towards tips. Pollen presenter with short, erect hairs, fusiform, 5-6 mm long, yellow. Cones hemispherical due to persistence of involucral bracts, 15-20 mm diam. Nuts to c. 3.5 mm long.

Grows in mallee and open dwarf scrub with low heath and sedges in white sand, in mallee heath in grey clayey sand and on sandplain.