Shrub to 3 m tall, often single-stemmed. Branchlets pubescent or villous, glabrescent. Juvenile leaves often reddish, soft and fern-like, villous. Adult leaves pinnate, bipinnate, or tripinnatifid, 3-11 cm long overall, glabrous; petiole 6-26 mm long; midrib well-defined, flattened, pungent; pinnae very variable. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal or axillary, pedunculate, c. 2 mm long; peduncle 10-20 mm long; involucral bracts ovate, glabrous; cone scales deciduous, villous at base; tips acute, glabrous. Flowers c. 10-12 mm long, creamy white or white, rarely pinkish, densely villous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 3 mm long, yellow, ±glabrous. Cones ovoid to ±globose, to c. 30 mm long; peduncle c. 20 mm long. Nuts 5-6 mm long, winged.
Grows in scrub in sand, sandy peat and pale grey sandy soil with abundant yellow bauxite grains; also in stunted Jarrah-Marri forest, in shrubland in grey sandy soil and in Jarrah woodland/forest in laterite; soils sometimes poorly drained.
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