 The pendent, tubular flowers are red with pale yellow tips.The subspecies was originally formally described as a species in its own right, "Correa speciosa" in 1811 in "The Botanist's Repository for New and Rare Plants".It was reclassified as subspecies of "Correa reflexa" by Paul G. Wilson in the botanical journal "Nuytsia" in 1998

Hybrids with "Correa aemula" and "Correa reflexa" var.