Dense shrub 3-4 m tall. Leaves entire, to 6 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, elliptic to obovate with a point at the tip, margins often rolled under, lower surface silky-hairy. Flower clusters spidery, erect, dense, mostly axillary, occasionally branched. Flowers and style red, orange or yellow, hairy outside, bearded inside; winter to spring. Fruit rough.

Grows naturally in alkaline soils.

WA.

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.