Erect or spreading shrub 0.6-2 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves 4-20 cm long, simple, terete, blunt to shortly acute, smooth. Inflorescence globose to ovoid, terminal or axillary, sessile, or shortly pedunculate, c. 15 mm long; peduncle 2-3 mm long; involucral bracts few; outer bracts subulate to lanceolate; inner bracts becoming broader; cone scales broad, ±circular, ±acuminate, glabrous except at base, or sometimes shortly ciliate. Flowers 17-25 mm long, pink to mauve, turning whitish, villous. Pollen presenter c. 4.5 mm long, turbinate below the brush; brush c. 3 mm long, yellow, densely tomentose-villous. Cones ±globose, ovoid to ±elliptic, 15-25 mm long; peduncle (if present) 2-3 mm long. Nuts c. 3 mm long.
Grows on granite outcrops, and in sandplain scrub and heath in white to greyish sand, low shrubland in yellow to white sand and laterite, shrubland in medium brown deep sand or fine sandy silt.
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