Petrophile sessilis Sieber ex Schult.

Erect shrub to 3 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous or minutely hairy, almost silky when young. Leaves rigid, terete, acute, divaricately-divided, 3.8-10 cm long; pinnae pungent, usually less than 10 mm long, occasionally to 30 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, sessile, solitary or sometimes 2 occurring beneath terminal inflorescence, 20-25 mm long; involucral bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, ferruginous-velvety, glabrescent; cone scales broadly ovate, acute, shortly villous. Flowers usually c. 14 mm long, creamy yellow, silky. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 2.5 mm long, with short hairs. Cones ovoid, to 35 mm long. Nuts c. 3 mm long.

Grows in dry sclerophyll forest, in open woodland and in low heath scrub, in sandy and rocky soils.