Shrub to 3 m tall. Leaves simple, obovate to broadly elliptic, mostly 5-14 cm long, thick with a sharp point. Flower clusters compressed, terminal, solitary, to 8 cm wide. Flowers about 3.5 cm long, pink to mauve-pink with a tuft of hairs at the end of each segment. Fruiting cones compressed, spherical, to 4.5 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.