Prostrate shrub to 50 cm tall. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, terete, blunt or acute, to 30 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, solitary, sessile, ovoid-conical, 2-2.5 (-3) cm long; involucral bracts rigid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; cone scales broadly ovate to broadly rhomboid, ±glabrous. Flowers to c. 25 mm long, yellow to cream, sweet-smelling, hirsute. Pollen presenter c. 4 mm long overall, ±turbinate below the brush; brush c. 2 mm long, densely hirsute. Cones ovoid, 10-25 mm long, occasionally longer. Nuts c. 2-3.5 mm long.
Grows in open Jarrah woodland or heath, in sand, gravelly sand, gravel, sandy loam, wet clay and sandplain.
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