Erect shrub 0.3-1 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves simple, terete or flattened, straight or curved into an open S-shape, 2.5-8.5 cm long, terminating in a 1.5 mm long pungent point. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal, sessile; involucral bracts glabrous, completely surrounding inflorescence, broad, ovate to ±elliptic, acuminate to acute; margin tattered; cone scales narrowly obovate to oblong-ovate to elliptic, acute to acuminate, glabrous; margin irregular, pale brown. Flowers c. 30 mm long, yellow, cream or creamy yellow, fragrant, sericeous. Pollen presenter, c. 4.5 mm long overall, clavate-turbinate below the brush; brush c. 2 mm long, dark orange, covered with short, distinct, spreading, hairs. Cones ovoid, c. 15 mm long. Nuts c. 3.5 mm long.
Grows in low closed heath in deep sand and clay loam, in sand-heaths, in low open heath in shallow, grey sand over laterite and in shrubland in laterite.
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