Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Grevillea shiressii

Flowering branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Branch with spent flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A grevillea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Wet forest along creek banks. Gosford area.

Notes

Shrub to 5 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, 8–19 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, margins sometimes wavy; surfaces hairless except for appressed hairs when young. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' green becoming blue-grey then translucent cream, hairless outside, warty inside. Gynoecium 27–32 mm long; style red-brown to mauve, mostly hairless. Flower clusters 2–9-flowered. Flowers late winter to summer.

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

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10380  (accessed 9 April 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~shiressii (accessed 9 April 2021)