It grows to a mere 50 cm (1+1⁄2 ft) high, with crowded small silvery leaves and insignificant pink or cream flowers.

It occurs only in southwestern Australia, where it is found in Fitzgerald River National Park on the south coast.

Adenanthos dobagii grows as a small open shrub up to half a metre (1+1⁄2 ft) high.

[2] Specimens of this species were collected in 1972 and 1973 by Irish botanist Ernest Charles Nelson, from the vicinity of Quoin Head in the Fitzgerald River National Park on the south coast of Western Australia.

It has been reported growing in sand-heath, open mallee, and in a low mixed shrubland of Allocasuarina humilis (Dwarf Sheoak), Isopogon trilobus (Three-lobed Conebush) and Melaleuca pulchella (Clawflower) over sedges.

[5] Other potential threats include damage during track maintenance, and dieback caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi,[5] to which highly susceptible.