Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Grevillea aspleniifolia

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Bungonia State Conservation Area

Stem with flowers and young seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberrra, ACT

Common name

A grevlllea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Open rocky or moist sites in dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north of Kangaroo Valley.

Notes

Shrub to 5 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, 15–25 cm long, mostly 3–20 mm wide, margins entire to coarsely toothed, lower surface tomentose with crinkled hairs. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, with greyish hairs outside, hairless inside. Gynoecium 12–25 mm long, style pinkish, with a green tip. Flower clusters one sided tooth brushes 3–8 cm long. Flowering: mainly July–November.

In the absence of specific information, seeds of all species of Grevillea have been keyed as having one wing.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~aspleniifolia  (accessed 19 January, 2021)