Shrub to 2 m tall. Leaves crowded, to about 3.5 cm long, variously divided, stiff, grooved, sharply pointed. Flower clusters mostly terminal, ovoid to spherical, stalkless, to about 6 cm wide. Flowers to 2.5 cm long, mauve-pink to red, hairless except for at the tips of the segments; winter to early summer. Fruiting cones spherical, ovoid or obovoid, to 2 cm wide.

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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.