Grevillea renwickiana

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         . . .

Conservation status: . . .

Etymology:   

• The genus was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville, an 18th-century patron of botany and co-founder of the Royal Horticultural Society

• The specific epithet (renwickiana) honours Sir Arthur Renwick

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged on one side of a rachis 20–25 mm long

• The flowers are cream-coloured to pale pink and purplish, the pistil 26–30.5 mm long

• Flowering occurs in November and December and the fruit is a hairy follicle

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The leaves are lance-shaped to oblong in outline, 50–140 mm long and 20–80 mm wide with 5 to 18 teeth or lobes, the end lobes triangular to oblong, mostly 5–35 mm long and 5–15 mm wide and sharply pointed

• The edges of the leaves are turned down, and the lower surface with loose, silky hairs

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Habit:        

• A prostrate shrub that typically grows to 20 cm high and forms mats up to 30 m in diameter and root suckers

Habitat:   

• Open forest

Distribution:                  

• South-eastern NSW

Additional notes:   

• Taxonomy

  • Grevillea renwickiana was first formally described in 1887 by Ferdinand von Mueller in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW

  • The  specimens were collected by William Baeuerlen "on heath-ground near the Little River in the Braidwood district, at an elevation of about 910 m"

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea_renwickiana (2024)