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Grevillea ilicifolia (R.Br.) R.Br.
Family Proteaceae
Common name: Holly Grevillea, Holly Bush

Grevillea ilicifolia (R.Br.) R.Br. APNI*

Description: Spreading to prostrate shrub, 0.3–2 m high.

Leaves 3–9 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, divided or rarely some entire, usually with 3–7 triangular to ovate teeth or lobes 0.5–5 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, margins recurved; lower surface subsericeous.

Inflorescences secund, 2–5 cm long. Perianth green-cream to grey or mauve, few to many appressed hairs outside, glabrous inside. Gynoecium usually 20–25 mm long; ovary densely hairy; style pink to red, glabrous, pollen presenter erect to oblique.

Follicle hairy with reddish brown stripes or blotches.


Habit
Photo Tanja Lenz

Flowering: mainly spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in mallee or heath on sandy acid to calcareous soils, in Griffith area.
NSW subdivisions: SWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept: R.O. Makinson (2000)

One subsp. in NSW: Grevillea ilicifolia subsp. ilicifolia

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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