Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves with long, fine, spreading hairs, glabrescent. Leaves bipinnate, 4-11 cm long overall; petiole 2-5 cm long; lamina rigid, terete, pungent; pinnae 6-20 mm long. Inflorescence oblong to ovoid, terminal, subterminal, axillary, sessile, c. 25 mm long; involucral bracts broad, acuminate, deciduous, glabrous outside, silky inside; cone scales broad, villous with tips acuminate and ±glabrous. Flowers 20-25 mm long, yellow to pale creamy yellow, fragrant, shortly silky-villous. Pollen presenter ±ridged, fusiform, c. 2-2.5 mm long, pale yellow to yellow, with short, reflexed hairs. Cones cylindrical to ovoid, to 28 mm long. Nuts c. 8 mm long, with winged, ±ciliate margins.
Grows in Jarrah forest, in heath in well-drained pale yellow clayey sand, in open woodland in laterite, in open forest in gravelly soil and in shrubland in grey sand over laterite.
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