Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Grevillea renwickiana
Common name
Nerriga grevillea
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, on the fringes of damp heath and other moist sites, and ridges in rocky soil. Ranges and tablelands between the Kings Highway and north of Nerriga.
Notes
Prostrate root-suckering shrub forming mats to several metres in diameter. Teeth on leaf margins sharp tipped. Leaves alternating along the stems, 5–14 cm long, 20–80 mm wide, with 5–18 triangular to oblong lobes, sometimes the lower lobes 2- or 3-toothed; lower surface sparsely to densely appressed hairy. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, greenish in late bud, 'petals' becoming cream to pale pink with purplish lobes, hairy outside, hairless inside. Gynoecium 26–31 mm long; style cream, becoming pink to reddish, with a green tip, hairless except near the base. Flowers sometimes with a number of styles. Flowers in clusters 2–2.5 cm long. Flowering: summer.
In the absence of specific information, seeds of all species of Grevillea have been keyed as having one wing.
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.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10376 (accessed 19 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~renwickiana (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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