Petrophile plumosa Meisn.

Shrub to 1.3 m tall. Branchlets hoary, hirsute to minutely pubescent. Leaves entire or with 2-3 short lobes, 13-32 mm long overall; petiole 6-20 mm long; lamina linear-spathulate, flattened, rigid, pungent, plumose, slightly scabrous, glabrescent; pinnae 2-6 mm long. Inflorescence ±globose, terminal, solitary, sessile, 20-25 mm long; involucral bracts ovate-oblong, villous at base, glabrous at tip; margins ciliate; cone scales ovate-oblong, narrow, villous; outer scales sometimes ±glabrous; margins ciliate. Flowers c. 2.5 mm long, pale yellow, densely villous. Pollen presenter narrowly fusiform, 3-3.5 mm long, yellow, with sparse, short, reflexed hairs. Cones ±ovoid, c. 25 mm long. Nuts c. 4 mm long, winged.

Grows in shrubland on sandplain, on gravelly hills and in sandy gravel.