
Beadle's Grevillea
Grevillea beadleana
Family Proteaceae
Endangered — rediscovered at Chaelundi Falls in 1981
About
Thought lost at its original 1887 Walcha collection site, Beadle's grevillea survives in only four known wild populations on shallow granite soils, including a significant population in Guy Fawkes River National Park near Chaelundi Falls, where it was rediscovered in 1981.
How to spot it
Shrub 0.8-2.5m tall with finely dissected, fern-like leaves 80-165mm long; one-sided racemes of grey-to-purplish flowers with a burgundy-to-scarlet style in late spring and summer, followed by woolly-haired seed pods.
Found in
- Guy Fawkes River National Park
Source: Wikipedia: Grevillea beadleana
Photo: Tatiana Gerus (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons