Low, spreading to erect undershrub to 80 cm tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves simple, terete, to 30 cm long, acute, or with a short, recurved point, smooth. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, solitary, sessile, c. 25 mm long; involucral bracts usually numerous, linear-subulate to lanceolate; cone scales ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ±reflexed, glabrous. Flowers c. 15-20 mm long, cream or yellow, sweet-scented, velvety to villous. Pollen presenter c. 4 mm long overall, broadly turbinate below the brush; brush c. 3 mm long, hirsute. Cones usually ovoid, 10-25 mm long. Nuts c. 2-3 mm long.
Grows in low shrubland in sandy gravel and light brown sand, in heath and low woodland in sand or clay flats, and in mallee scrub on sandy flats.
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