Prostrate, spreading shrub to c. 30 cm tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves 15-30 cm long, terete, acute, spirally twisted, smooth. Inflorescence terminal, sessile or pedunculate, to 25-30 mm long; peduncle 6-12 (-18) mm long; involucral bracts few, subulate, glabrous; cone scales ±circular to broadly ovate, glabrous; apices acute. Flowers c. 35 mm long, white, creamy white, pale cream-pink to pale pink, villous. Pollen presenter c. 6-8 mm long, turbinate below the brush; brush c. 4.5 mm long, yellow, villous. Cones ±globose to ellipsoidal, 15-25 mm long; peduncle mostly to c. 12 mm long, occasionally longer. Nuts c. 2-2.8 mm long.
Scattered in sandy heathlands. Grows in low heath in sandy clay, near salt pans; also in heath in white sand and laterite, in low scrub in sand and in tall, open woodland in well-drained, deep white sand.
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