Spindly shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves deeply 2-3-lobed or entire, to c. 14 cm long overall, 2-6 mm wide; lamina linear, linear-lanceolate or narrowly obovate, ±flattened, finely veined, pungent; midrib obscured. Inflorescence ovoid, sometimes terminal but mostly axillary, sessile, solitary, 6-8 mm long; involucral bracts numerous, imbricate, glabrous outside, villous inside; margins shortly ciliate; cone scales ovate, tomentose or shortly villous outside, glabrous inside. Flowers c. 10-15 mm long, pale yellow, yellow or cream, fragrant, shortly silky. Pollen presenter 3 mm long overall, clavate to turbinate, distinctly 4-angled below the brush; brush c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Cones ovoid to ovoid-oblong, c. 12 mm diam. Nuts flattened, c. 5 mm long, winged.
Grows in dense scrub on sandplain, in open woodland in sandy loam with abundant surface gravel, in open woodland in gravel and in tall heath in gravelly sand over laterite; also in Jarrah forest in gravel and in low open heath in pale grey-brown sandy silt.
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