Spreading or prostrate shrub to about 1.5 m tall. Leaves entire, linear to oblanceolate 1-3 cm long, 0.5 cm wide, hairy,margins rolled under. Flower clusters more or less erect and 1-sided, sometimes branched. Flowers reddish pink at the base, green to cream above, hairless outside; late winter to spring. Style red. Fruit hairy, without stripes or blotches.
Hybridises readily and is a parent of many cultivars.
NSW, Vic.
Intergrades with G. rosmarinifolia in E Gippsland.
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.