Erect shrub to 3 m tall. Leaves entire, mostly obovate to elliptic to 12 cm or so long, 2 cm wide but mostly narrower, hairy below, margins rolled under. Flower clusters short, more or less 1-sided. Flowers red or occasionally pink, hairy outside, bearded inside; winter and spring. Style red, rarely pink. Fruit hairless. Syn. G. speciosa (Knight) D.J. McGillivray subsp. oleoides Schultes &Schultes f.

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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.