Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Grevillea lanigera
Common name
Woolly grevillea
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and moist rocky places. Widespread. Coastal records mostly south of Eden.
Notes
Spreading shrub to 2 m high. Branches hairy with grey to rusty hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–4 cm long, 0.7–5 mm wide, flat, sometimes almost cylindrical, upper surface hairy becoming finely rough, lower surface hairy, often concealed, margins entire and curved to rolled down. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' dark red to pinkish at the base and green to cream above, hairless and often glaucous outside. bearded usually above the middle inside. Gynoecium 13–20 mm long; style pink to red, hairy with fine hairs for the lower two-thirds. Flowers clustered. Flowers Winter to Summer.
Hybridises with Grevillea alpina. Occasionally hybridises with Grevillea arenaria and Grevillea rosmarinifolia subsp. rosmarinifolia.
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~lanigera (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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