Low, spreading shrub. Leaves to 20 cm long, 6 cm wide, leathery and with yellowy venation,more or less hairless when mature, wavy-edged, divided into up to 30 large, more or less opposite, triangular lobes. Flower clusters erect, sometimes branched, roundish to cylindrical. Flowers green-pink and hairless outside, deep pink and bearded inside; spring. Style pink. Fruit rough and prickly.
Narrow and broad leaf forms occur in the wild.
WA.
Source: (2002). Proteaceae. In: . 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.