Common name: Bauer's Grevillea
Grevillea baueri subsp. asperula McGill. APNI* 
Description: Spreading to erect shrub 0.5–2 m high.
Leaves oblong-elliptic to ovate or narrowly so, 10–30 mm long, 3–15 mm wide, margins entire and recurved to revolute, lower surface glabrous, or with scattered hairs along midvein.
Inflorescences erect to decurved, 0–4-branched. Perianth red to pink with cream or yellow towards apex, glabrous outside or with scattered erect hairs on limb only, bearded usually above the middle inside. Gynoecium usually 16–25 mm long; ovary densely hairy and ± sessile; style red, loosely villous in lower half, glabrous above.
Follicle usually hairy, without dark stripes or blotches.
Flowering: mainly winter & spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll woodland or heath in sandy soils on sandstone.
NSW subdivisions: SC, ST
Text by R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept: R.O. Makinson (2000)
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