Low, spreading shrub to 30 cm or more tall. Leaves to 15 cm or more long, divided into 8-13 fine, linear, silky lobes 1 mm or less wide, some divided a second time. Flower clusters long, 1-sided, sometimes with a few branches. Flowers and style green at first, becoming yellow then orange, silky outside, hairless inside; summer to winter. Style green to yellow and orange. Fruit hairy.

Highly attractive warm-climate species.

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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.