Spreading to erect shrub to 3 m tall or lower, spreading in subsp. stenomera. Leaves deeply twice divided into tough, sharply pointed lobes. Flower cluster one-sided. Flowers grey or pale green with a pink style, hairy outside, mostly Oct-Feb. Fruit hairy, blotched or striped.
Landscape plant tolerant of wet soils. There are 3 subspecies.
NSW.
Source: (2002). Proteaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
