Shrub to small tree to about 5 m tall. Leaves to about 15 cm long, 3 cm wide, entire, elliptic to oblanceolate, rusty at first, silky-hairy below. Flower clusters erect, terminal, dense, more or less 1-sided. Flowers pink-red, silky-hairy outside and hairy inside, pointing backwards; autumn to spring. Style pinkish red. Fruit hairy with reddish stripes and blotches. Syn. G. goodii R. Br. subsp. decora (Domin) D.J. McGillivray.

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Source: Spencer, R.; Molyneux, B.; Mathews, D. (2002). Proteaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.