Petrophile wonganensis Foreman

Dense shrub 0.4-1.5 m tall, to 2 m across. Branchlets and leaves covered with short, curly, whitish hairs, glabrescent. Leaves simple, terete, 5-9 mm long, blunt, minutely scabrous. Inflorescence ±globose, sessile, terminal, to c. 15 mm diam. Involucral bracts ±ovate or elliptic, acuminate, deciduous, glabrous at base, fringed with pale, ferruginous hairs near apex; cone scales elliptic to broadly elliptic, slightly glutinous, acute, becoming retuse, tomentose or woolly. Flowers 14-15 mm long, yellow, villous. Pollen presenter c. 4 mm long, covered with short, slightly reflexed hairs; brush c. 3 mm long; basal portion attenuate. Cones ±globose, c. 15-20 mm diam. Nuts c. 4-5 mm long.

Grows in shrubland, in heath in sandy soil; also in deep white sand and yellow sandy loam.