Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Grevillea iaspicula

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

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

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Peter Ollerenshaw, Wee Jasper Cave near Yass

Common name

Wee Jasper grevillea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Shrubby woodland on limestone outcrops and around sink holes and cave entrances. Wee Jasper area and near Lake Burrinjuck.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–3.5 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, hairless, margins entire and curved down. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' green to cream, pinkish near the curve, hairless outside, bearded usually above the middle inside. Gynoecium 16–18 mm long, style pink to red, hairless. Flowers in  much branched oval  clusters, often curved down or hanging down, 2–3 cm long. Flowering: mostly winter to spring, possibly autumn.

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

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

Sensitive Species list NSW.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10366 (accessed 15 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~iaspicula  (accessed 15 January, 2021)