Medium shrub to about 5 m tall. Leaves to 10 cm long and 2 cm wide, oblanceolate with a long-tapering base, leathery with faint longitudinal veins and a blunt tip. Flower clusters small, brownish, at the base of the leaves, fragrant; summer. Flowers with rusty red hair, the style strongly curved at the tip. Fruit to about 5 cm long, with a prominent beak.

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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.