Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves pinnate or deeply trifid, 3.5-7 cm long overall; petiole flattened, 2-4.5 cm long; lamina rigid, flattened, faintly striated, pungent; pinnae 2-4 cm long, 2.5-10 mm wide, sometimes further divided. Inflorescence ±cylindrical or narrowly ovoid, terminal or axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate, 2.5-6 cm long; apical part sometimes sterile; peduncle to c. 14 mm long; involucral bracts subulate, caducous; cone scales rather small and densely villous, becoming broad and glabrous with tip lanceolate and deciduous. Flowers 10-12 mm long, white, cream, creamy white or yellow, glabrous. Pollen presenter fusiform, 3-4 mm long, yellow, shortly and sparsely hairy. Cones narrowly ovoid, 3.5-6 cm long; peduncle c. 14 mm long. Nuts 5-6 mm long.
Grows in low scrub, in heath in sandy clay, in shrubland in clayey sand, sandy loam and laterite and in mallee shrubland in gravelly lateritic clay.
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