Grevillea rhyolitica subsp. rhyolitica Makinson APNI* Synonyms: Grevillea sp. aff. victoriae 'B' of Olde & Marriott (1995) APNI*
Description: Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets open-tomentose, usually with a mixture of non-glandular brownish biramous hairs, and simple erect pale ?glandular hairs (sometimes only the latter).
Lower leaf surface with an open indumentum of ascending biramous hairs usually denser along midvein, often also with few to many scattered minute erect simple hairs; hairs mostly pale.
Peduncle and floral rachis tomentose with biramous hairs and usually also numerous simple erect hairs. Flower colour: perianth and style red. Perianth loosely tomentose outside, with mainly biramous ascending hairs and usually also relatively few simple erect hairs, the latter usually confined to basal third and inconspicuous, or rarely extending over whole outer surface.
Flowering: Flowers September–December
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs in southern N.S.W., in montane areas W and SW of Moruya, in Dampier State Forest and Deua Natl Park, on the catchments of Donalds Ck and the Coondella Ck-Burra Ck system (all tributaries from the S to the Deua R.). Grows in both moist gully and steep rocky ridge situations, in skeletal soils on rhyolite.
NSW subdivisions: SC
Text by R.O. Makinson
Taxon concept: R.O. Makinson (Fl. Australia)
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