Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Grevillea australis
Common name
Alpine grevillea
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, grasslands, beside streams and swamps, and rocky situations. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Erect to almost prostrate shrub to 1.2 m high. Leaves with rigid or sharp points. Branchlets hairy with appressed hairs, young shoots and buds red brown. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–4.5 cm long, 0.5–5.5 mm wide, stiff, margins entire and often unevenly rolled down, upper surface flat to convex, often glossy, lower surface silky, sometimes obscured by the margins. Flowers strongly scented. Flowers with 4 'petals', 3-4 mm long, 'petals' white to cream or pale pink, tips sometimes red-brown. 'Petals' appressed hairy outside, hairless or with a bearded swelling near the base inside. 'Petals' separated to the base when the flowers are fully open. Gynoecium 6–7.5 mm long, style cream, sometimes tipped pink, hooked within 1.5 mm of the tip, mostly hairless. Flower stalks and the outside of flower buds covered in red brown hairs. Flower clusters dome-shaped to irregular, 7–13 mm long. Flowering: November–February. Seed cases hairless.
In the absence of specific information, seeds of all species of Grevillea have been keyed as having one wing.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~australis (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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