Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Grevillea raybrownii

Dried specimen of flowering stem. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. Scanned by Ingrid P. Lin. Specimen from near Mittagong.

Common name

A grevlllea

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Dry forest. Ranges and Southern Highlands west of Wollongong.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Tips of the leaf lobes spiny. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5–5 cm long, with 3–5 narrow lobes, each divided twice again, the ultimate lobes 0.5–2.4 cm long, 0.6–1.2 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface silky, with two grooves. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' white with rusty hairs outside, hairless inside. Gynoecium 6–7 mm long, style white in the lower half, lilac in the upper half, hairless. Flowers brown in bud. Flower clusters oval, dense. Flowers spring.

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~raybrownii (accessed 19 January, 2021)