Citation: Lindley, Sketch Veg. Swan Riv. Col. xxxvi (1840).

Synonymy: Grevillea eriostachya

Common name: Orange grevillea, flame grevillea.

Description:
Shrub to 3 m high, with long arching branches; branchlets persistently woolly-tomentose; leaves ascending, long-petiolate and pinnatipartite, sometimes entire, 6.5-22 cm long, mid-green to greenish-grey, woolly-pubescent, glabrescent, final segments 1-7, narrow-linear, 2-16 cm X 1.2-2.5 mm, mid-vein and penninervation prominent above, with 2 narrow persistently pubescent grooves between margins and midrib below, mucro short, straight.

Racemes of c. 100-200 yellow to orange flowers, ?unilateral, several in terminal panicles; rhachis, pedicels and perianth externally woolly-tomentose, the raceme rhachis 14-26 cm long, 3.5-6 mm diam. towards the base of the apical raceme; pedicels 3-4 mm long; torus horizontal; perianth 6.5-8.5 mm long, dilated at the base, strongly recurved below the limb, splitting into 4 free segments; ovary sessile, white-hirsute; style slightly curved, 17-20 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter a slightly oblique disc surmounted by a short blunt cone; fruit greatly compressed, obliquely ovate-elliptic, 15-19 mm long, inserted laterally on and almost perpendicular to a short stout pedicel, tomentose; style terminal or more or less lateral, erect, usually broken down to the base.

Seed elliptic including the broad flat membranous wing which surrounds the nucleus completely.

	Grevillea eriostachya twig, upper and lower surface of leaves and section, flower, pistil and fruit.
Image source: fig 70a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Erickson et al. (1973) Flowers and plants of Western Australia, fig. 361.

Distribution:  In sand, on dunes, swales and plains, in sclerophyllous shrubland and open woodland. S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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