Spreading, glabrous to puberulent perennial to 50 cm high, sometimes higher. Stems many, intertwined, much-branched above. Leaves linear to narrowly obovate, to 45 mm long. Inflorescence lax, cylindrical; flowers in many-bracted clusters of 3-6, subsessile; bracts serrulate. Hypanthium 0.6-1.1 mm long. Sepals 1.2-2.1 mm long, erose-serrulate. Corolla yellow-green to yellow, often flushed with dark brown; tube 2.5-5.5 mm long; lobes 1.8-2.2 mm long, acute to obtuse. Gynoecium 3-partite. Cocci 5-10 mm long, glabrous, with 3 prominent semi-elliptic wings; basal cavity deep, circular.
Frequently grows on sand dunes, less commonly in swales and on plains, rarely in fine sand on stony ground; occurs in woodland and shrubland, often among spinifex.
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