Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Grevillea triternata
Common name
A grevlllea
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Dry forest. North from Bungonia. Mainly ranges, tablelands, and Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Tips of the leaf lobes spiny. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–10 cm long, divided, often divided again once or twice, ultimate lobes 0.5–5 cm long, 0.8–3.5 mm wide; margins often angularly abruptly bent down or sometimes more smoothly rolled down, sometimes concealing the silky lower surface. Flowers with 4 'petals' joined together in pairs, 'petals' white, cream or pale green, appressed hairy outside, hairless inside. Gynoecium 3.8–5.8 mm long; style white, cream or pale green, hairless. Flower clusters more or less cylindrical, 1.0–2.8 cm long. Flowering: winter to spring.
In the absence of specific information, seeds of all species of Grevillea have been keyed as having one wing.
Occasionally intergrades with Grevillea ramosissima subsp. ramosissima.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~triternata (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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