Common name: Linear-leaf Grevillea
Grevillea humilis subsp. lucens Makinson APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub 0.4–1.3 m tall. Hairs of branchlets and lower leaf surfaces reflective-sparkling under strong light. Branchlets usually loosely subsericeous to almost glabrous.
Adult leaves ascending to spreading, narrowly oblong-elliptic to sublinear, 1.5–4 cm long, 1.7–3.5 mm wide, usually many leaves arranged in clusters of 3; upper surface glabrous or loosely sericeous with sparkling hairs.
Pedicels 6–10 mm long. Flower colour: perianth and style pink. Pistil 9–16 mm long.
Flowering: Flowers at least June–August
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs in south-eastern Qld, where known only from the type locality, and in far-north coastal N.S.W. (Tabbimobile area). Grows in open eucalypt forest or woodland with an open shrub/grass understorey, in sandy loam soils (sometimes intermittently waterlogged situations), sometimes on rhyolite/trachyte substrates.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by R.O. Makinson
Taxon concept: R.O. Makinson (Fl. Australia)
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