Adenanthos apiculatus R.Br.

Prostrate, spreading shrub often 2 m across, rarely 50 cm tall, without lignotuber. Leaves on shoots very small; those surrounding flowers much longer, deeply segmented, petiolate; laciniae usually 3, terete, 5-20 mm long, c. 0.5 mm diam., usually glabrous; floral leaves with long hairs near base. Perianth c. 13 mm long, pale cream, or with green apex and cream base, hirsute outside. Style c. 25 mm long, after anthesis reflexed at base and dorsally arched, glabrous, rarely with long hairs; ovary hirsute.

Grows as an undershrub in sandy or gravelly soil, often in dense scrub.