Erect or low-growing shrub to 1 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous or with scattered, fine, spreading hairs. Leaves once or twice imparipinnate, 7-19.5 cm long; petiole 3-11 cm long; pinnae variable, usually to c. 25 mm long, glaucous, flattened, acute to pungent; midrib ±distinct. Inflorescence ±globular, sessile, terminal or axillary, c. 14 mm diam.; involucral bracts imbricate, triangular, acuminate, ±persistent, dark brown and glabrous outside, villous inside; cone scales acute, densely villous outside, glabrous inside; tip glabrous. Flowers c. 14 mm long, creamy yellow, yellow or creamy white, silky-villous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 2 mm long, yellow, with short, reflexed hairs. Cones ±ovoid to globose, c. 15 mm diam. Nuts c. 6 mm long, flattened, winged.
Grows in shrubland on laterite ridge, in open woodland on gravelly hilltop and in low sclerophyll scrub in sand; also in open shrubland and heath in laterite and in low open mallee in pale orange sand.
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