Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Grevillea buxifolia subsp. buxifolia
Common name
Grey spider flower
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Ranges north from west of Ulladulla. Coastal north from the Nowra district.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 0.7–3.5 cm long, 2–8.5 mm wide, margins entire and curved to rolled down, lower surface hairy. Flowers grey to pink, with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, twisting to expose the whitish woolly inner surface, outer surface rusty to fawn hairy. Gynoecium 17–21 mm long; style hairy with whitish hairs. Flower clusters few to many-flowered. Flowers mainly Spring to Autumn.
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~buxifolia (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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