Dense, spiny shrub to 1.2 m tall. Branchlets grey-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves simple, terete, mostly 6-14 mm long, ±appressed, scabrous, pungent, covered with fine hairs, glabrescent. Inflorescence ovoid, to c. 20 mm diam., terminal, sessile; involucral bracts numerous, imbricate, acuminate to acute, slightly glutinous, villous to sparsely hairy, fringed with hairs; cone scales narrowly ovate, becoming broadly ovate, villous at base. Flowers 8-14 mm long, yellow to yellow-cream, villous. Pollen presenter ±fusiform, with short, ±erect hairs; brush merging with an attenuated basal part, c. 3-3.5 mm long, yellow. Cones ±globose to ovoid, 10-20 mm diam. Nuts c. 4-5 mm long.
Grows in low open heath in white sand and with Leucopogon and Calothamnus in pale grey-brown sand; also in shrubland, Banksia heathland in sandy soils, and on sandplain.
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