Shrub or small tree to 5 m or so tall. Leaves linear, mostly 10-20 cm long, 2 mm wide, flat, pointed. Flower clusters axillary, erect, often several together, spike-like, to 12 cm or so long. Flowers orange, the segments bent back. Style red. Fruit about 2 cm long with a thick beak.

May be grafted on H. salicifolia.

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.