Open, prostrate shrub to 3 m or so with 1 stem, sometimes dense and prostrate. Leaves simple, entire, margins curled under, linear to narrowly elliptic or obovate, hardly pointed. Flower clusters terminal, 1-sided, branched. Flowers hairy outside, white to pale pink and bearded inside; autumn to spring. Style white or pink. Fruit warty.

There are numerous desirable horticultural forms available.

Qld, NSW, Vic.

Differs from G. leiophylla in having leaves with silky lower surface and dotted upper surface.

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.