Shrub, occasionally prostrate, to about 0.5 m tall. Leaves entire, to 3 cm long, 1 cm wide, ovate to elliptic,margins rolled under, lower surface white velvet-hairy. Flower clusters dense but with few flowers. Flowers red to orange, hairy outside and bearded inside; autumn to spring. Style red to orange. Fruit slightly ribbed.

Sometimes grown as a prostrate form and as a container or rockery plant.

WA.

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.