Silver-grey shrub to 2 m tall. Leaves to 15 cm long, divided into 4-16 silky-hairy linear lobes. Flower clusters hanging, occasionally 2-branched, more or less 1-sided, borne within the foliage. Flowers pale pink to orange with a green-yellow base; late winter to early summer. Style greenish pink with a green tip. Fruit hairless, rough with a ridged base.

Occasionally available as a prostrate form.

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.