Curly Grevillea

Appearance

"Grevillea eryngioides" is a glaucous shrub with low, clumping foliage but forms flowering spikes typically 0.5–1.5 m high, and that forms suckers. The leaves are mostly 100–180 mm long and 30–65 mm wide with two to five pairs of oblong to egg-shaped lobes with the narrower end towards the base, the lobes 10–50 mm long and 20–30 mm wide with wavy edges. Both surfaces of the leaves are glabrous and glaucous. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils on a long, usually branched flowering spike, in dense, oval groups with many flowers on a rachis 20–70 mm long. The flowers are light purplish-red with a yellowish, red- to blackish-tipped style, the pistil 9–11 mm long. Flowering mostly occurs from September to November and the fruit is a sticky, oval to lens-shaped follicle 14–21 mm long.

Distribution

Curly grevillea gows in heath or shrubland and is widespread between Morawa, Lake Grace, Coolgardie and Peak Charles National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Habitat

Curly grevillea gows in heath or shrubland and is widespread between Morawa, Lake Grace, Coolgardie and Peak Charles National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.