Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Grevillea rivularis
Common name
Carrington Falls grevillea
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, and shrubland, mainly near streams. Carrington Falls area on the upper Kangaroo River west of Kiama, within Budderoo National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 2.5 m high. Tips of the leaf lobes sharp. Stems almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–6 cm long, stiff, twice-divided, with up to nine narrow lobes, the ultimate lobes 1–3 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, margins rolled down, lower surface mostly or completely obscured except for the midvein, hairless or with scattered appressed hairs. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' purplish cream becoming pearly mauve, pink, or grey, hairless. Gynoecium 27–32 mm long; style cream becoming pearly pink to mauve or grey with a green tip, hairless. Flower clusters drooping, one-sided, toothbrush shaped, 50–60 mm long. Flowering: spring to autumn.
In the absence of specific information, seeds of all species of Grevillea have been keyed as having one wing.
Critically 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.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10378 (accessed 30 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~rivularis (accessed 30 April 2021)
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