Adenanthos venosus Meisn.

Diffuse shrub with ascending branches, to c. 1.5 m tall, with lignotuber. Leaves mostly clustered at tips of shoots, entire, sessile, ovate to obovate, to 15 mm long, c. 10 mm wide, acuminate or mucronate-acute, glabrous except at base. Perianth c. 25 mm long, dull crimson with cream band in centre, with numerous glandular hairs outside, especially on limb. Style c. 40 mm long, glabrous; ovary shortly hairy.

Grows on rocky hillslopes in siliceous sand.