Tree to 4 m or more tall. Leaves of 10-18 comb-like, linear lobes to about 2 mm wide, silky above, silky in the grooves below. Flower clusters erect, occasionally branched, cylindrical. Flowers and styles creamy white, white-hairy outside, hairless inside; autumn to spring. Fruit hairy, with reddish stripes and blotches.
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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.