Shrub to 1 m tall. Leaves to 5 cm long, 3 cm wide, divided into 5-25 comb-like, narrowly linear to cylindrical, sharply pointed lobes. Flower clusters erect or hanging, terminal, toothbrush-like, sometimes 2-branched, more or less 1-sided. Flowers and style pale to dark orange, hairless or slightly silky outside, hairless inside; autumn to spring. Fruit hairy, with red stripes and blotches.
Sometimes grafted on to G. robusta and used as a standard.
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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.