Dense shrub to about 2 m tall. Leaves to about 3 cm long, 3 mm wide, linear, margins rolled under. Flower clusters terminal and axillary. Flowers dark scarlet-pink tipped cream, slightly hairy. A hybrid, g. lavandulacea (Victor Harbour, sa, form) _ g. rosmarinifolia (Dargo, Vic, form). Raised by Bill Cane at Clearview Nsy, Maffra, Vic in 1940s and named after one of his sons. Sometimes sold as 'Red Dragon'.