Petrophile fastigiata R.Br.

Erect shrub to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or slightly tomentose. Leaves erect, to c. 11 cm long overall; petiole 2-5 cm long; lamina terete, 2 or 3 times ternately divided, ±obtuse, glabrous. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, sessile, viscid; involucral bracts numerous, imbricate, broadly triangular, deciduous, glabrous outside, silky inside; cone scales broad, ±circular, woolly at base. Flowers c. 10 mm long, yellow to cream, glabrous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 3 mm long, yellow, shortly hirsute. Cones ovoid, 20-40 mm long. Nuts c. 5 mm long.

Grows in open mallee scrub in gravelly clay soil; also in shrubland, in open scrub in laterite and in low open heath in light grey-brown sandy silt.