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Grevillea buxifolia subsp. ecorniculata Olde & Marriott
Family Proteaceae
Common name: Grey Spider Flower

Grevillea buxifolia subsp. ecorniculata Olde & Marriott APNI*

Synonyms: Grevillea ecorniculata (Olde & Marriott) Olde ms. APNI*

Description: Shrub 1–2 m tall.

Leaves elliptic to narrowly so, 1–2 cm long, 3–6 mm wide.

Pedicels 6–9 mm long. Flower colour: perianth (hairs) brown to fawn and grey outside, sometimes tinged pink, white to pale grey inside; style (hairs) pale grey to off-white, with pinkish tones from ground tissue. Pistil 11–13 mm long; style-end usually lacking appendage on dorsal side of style apex, or occasionally with an inconspicuous erect apiculation to 0.8 (-1.3) mm long; hairs on style apex markedly longer than those on rest of style; plane of pollen-presenter ±parallel to style axis; pollen-presenter round in face view.


Type
Specimen

Flowering: Flowers mainly July–November

Distribution and occurrence: Occurs in eastern subcoastal N.S.W., NW of Sydney between Putty, Gospers Mtn and Wollombi.

Grows in shrubby associations in dry eucalypt forest in skeletal sandy soils over sandstone.
NSW subdivisions: CC, CT
AVH map***

Text by R.O. Makinson
Taxon concept: R.O. Makinson (Fl. Australia)


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