Shrub to about 2 m tall. Leaves entire, simple, shape variable, to about 8 cm long, 3 cm wide, leathery, upper surface rough, lower surface silky-hairy, margin rolled under. Flower clusters mostly terminal, hanging, occasionally branched, cylindrical. Flowers red, apricot or pink-hairy outside, bearded inside, often bicoloured; spring to summer. Style red-brown. Fruit wrinkled and ridged, hairless.

A variable species that is under revision. A form with oval leaves is available, sometimes sold as G. victoriae, and another form from Mt Wellington was int. Austraflora Nsy,Vic, in the late 1960s.

Vic.

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.