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