Spreading shrub to 1m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly elliptic to obovate, to 2 cm long, 1 cm wide, silky-hairy below. Flower clusters bent down, sometimes branched. Flowers with rusty hairs outside, bearded inside; mostly spring. Style pink to red. Fruit hairless.
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.