Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets ±hoary, glabrescent. Leaves simple, terete, 6-15 mm long, acute, smooth, mostly curving upwards, ±pilose, glabrescent. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal, sessile, c. 10 mm diam.; involucral bracts subulate, deciduous, shortly hairy; cone scales ovate to broadly ovate, acute, tomentose at base, glabrous at tip. Flowers c. 12 mm long, yellow, glabrous. Pollen presenter narrowly ovoid, c. 4.5 mm long, orange, shortly and sparsely hairy. Cones globose, to c. 28 mm diam. Nuts c. 3 mm long, c. 5 mm wide.
Grows in shrubland and heath, often associated with mallees, in sand, gravelly sand and laterite.
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