Spreading, prostrate or clumping shrub. Leaves to 25 cm long, 0.5 cm wide, leathery, linear or rarely forked, lower surface with 2 obscure ridges. Flower clusters spidery, 1-sided, erect, terminal, branched and on spectacular stalks to over 1m long. Flowers reddish, yellow or grey towards the tip, tip blackish; winter to spring. Style red. Fruit slightly rough.

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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.