
Grampians Grevillea
Grevillea confertifolia
Family Proteaceae
About
Grevillea confertifolia, commonly known as Grampians grevillea or dense-leaf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Grampians in Victoria, Australia. It is a spreading, often dense shrub with linear to narrowly oblong leaves, and reddish-purple flowers.
How to spot it
Grevillea confertifolia is a spreading, often dense shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). Its leaves are linear to narrowly oblong, 10–45 mm (0.39–1.77 in) long and 0.7–2.0 mm (0.028–0.079 in) wide with the edges turned down or rolled under, obscuring all but the mid-vein on the lower surface. The flowers are usually arranged in groups of more than thirty on the ends of branchlets and are reddish-purple, the pistil 10.5–12.5 mm (0.41–0.49 in) long with a pink to reddis
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Mount Buangor State Park — The Grampians & Western Victoria hikes
Source: Atlas of Living Australia + Wikipedia: Grevillea confertifolia
Photo via iNaturalist Australia (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)), collected by pomona-sh