Shrub to about 1.5 m tall. Leaves variable, to about 3.5 cm long, hairless, the tip blunt but with a sharp point. Flower clusters generally grouped together towards the tips of the branchlets, to about 2 cm long and surrounded by leaves. Flowers 1-1.5 cm long, pink, mauve, creamy to white or green, tufts of hair at the tips of the segments; late winter to early summer. Fruiting cones cup-shaped, to 1 cm long.

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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.