Petrophile incurvata W.Fitzg.

Much-branched shrub to 1.2 m tall. Branchlets tomentose when young, glabrescent. Leaves rigid, flattened, entire or with with 2-5 short, pungent lobes, incurved, c. 7-12 cm long overall, glabrous. Inflorescence ±cylindrical or ovoid, terminal, sometimes 2 or 3 arising close together, sessile or shortly pedunculate, to c. 3.5 cm long; peduncle c. 10 mm long; involucral bracts deciduous, linear, acuminate; cone scales broad, rigid, overlapping, acuminate, becoming obtuse, velvety. Flowers c. 10-14 mm long, cream or yellowish white, silky-villous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 5 mm long, with short, stiff, ±erect hairs. Cones ovoid to cylindrical, 20-30 mm long; peduncle c. 6 mm long. Nuts c. 6 mm long.

Grows in shrubland in pale brown, yellow and white sand.