Erect, spreading shrub 0.6-1.6 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves simple, terete, shortly pungent, 4.5-13.5 cm long. Inflorescence ovoid, terminal, pedunculate, to c. 20 mm long; peduncle 6-12 mm long; involucral bracts linear, deciduous; cone scales broad, velvety; tips acuminate, glabrous. Flowers c. 10-12 mm long, pink to cream, villous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 5 mm long, covered with short, stiff hairs. Cones ovoid to narrowly ovoid, 20-47 mm long; peduncle to c. 12 mm long. Nuts c. 4 mm long.
Grows in mixed sclerophyll scrub in sandy soil, in shrubland in yellow sand over laterite and in open scrub in well-drained, deep, yellow sand.
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