Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Grevillea phylicoides

Flower cluster. Photographer Reiner Richter, Morton National Park

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

Common name

Grey spider flower

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Woodland and heath. Coast, ranges, and eastern edge of the tablelands, north from the Jervis Bay area.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 1–2.5 cm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, margins entire and curved down; upper surface granular, lower surface exposed, hairy. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' white to pink, hairy outside, inner surface more or less white woolly. Gynoecium 10–13 mm long; style white or pink to red, hairy. Flowers clustered. Flowers July–March.

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~phylicoides  (accessed 19 January, 2021)