Erect or spreading shrub to c. 1.5 m tall. Branchlets and leaves silky-pubescent, or with long, fine, spreading hairs, glabrescent or not. Leaves crowded, bipinnate or tripinnate, 15-34 mm long overall; petiole 2-10 mm long; lamina terete, acute to pungent; lower pinnae branching again. Inflorescence ovoid, sessile or with peduncles to c. 5 mm long, in terminal clusters or in upper axils, c. 10 mm diam.; involucral bracts few, deciduous; cone scales villous on outer, basal surfaces, glabrous inside; tips acute to acuminate, glabrous. Flowers 13-16 mm long, yellow or greyish mauve to pink, silky-or ferruginous-villous. Pollen presenter ±ridged, fusiform, c. 4 mm long, orange-yellow, with short, reflexed hairs. Cones ovoid to globose, 10-12 mm long. Nuts 5-8 mm long.
Grows in open Eucalyptus woodland in gravelly loam, in shrubland in laterite, in Jarrah woodland in white sand and in low open woodland in shallow yellow sand over limestone; also in scrub heath over coastal limestone and, sometimes, in peaty sand.
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