Erect, much-branched shrub to c. 2 m tall. Branchlets tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves simple, terete, 7-13 mm long, appressed, pungent, hirsute, minutely scabrous to almost smooth, glabrescent; apex usually recurved. Inflorescence ±globular, terminal, sessile, 10-15 mm diam.; involucral bracts numerous, narrowly ovate, acuminate, sometimes persisting, glutinous, sparsely hairy; cone scales narrowly elliptic, densely villous; tip glabrous. Flowers c. 11 mm long, pale yellow to cream, pilose to tomentose. Pollen presenter ±fusiform to slightly attenuate at base, c. 3 mm long, yellow or orange-yellow, shortly and sparsely hairy. Cones ±globose to ovoid, c. 10-15 mm diam. Nuts c. 3.5 mm long.
Grows in bushland in yellow sand, in low open heath, in shrubland in grey to white sand with high gravel content and in sandy heath with Eucalyptus todtiana .
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