Spreading shrub to about 2 m tall and 4 m wide. Leaves to about 6 cm long, generally with 3 forward-pointing lobes to about 7 cm wide, each lobe pointed, veins prominent on upper surface. Flower clusters erect, sometimes with a few branches, roundish. Flowers small, white with yellowish base, mostly hairless; winter and spring. Fruit warty.
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G. biternata lacks veins on the upper leaf surface; G. trifida has the 3 leaf divisions further divided.
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.