Grevillea hockingsii


Grevillea hockingsii is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves and clusters of reddish-pink flowers.

Description

Grevillea hockingsii is a dense, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of high and has ascending, silky-hairy branchlets. Its adult leaves are oblong to narrowly elliptic, long and wide. The lower surface of the leaves is silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the stems in clusters of two to ten long on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel about long. The flowers are reddish pink, hairy and slightly rust-coloured, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to December and the fruit is an elliptic to narrowly oval follicle long.

Taxonomy

Grevillea hockingsii was first formally described in 2008 by Bill Molyneux and Peter M. Olde in the journal Telopea from specimens collected in the Coominglah State Forest, Queensland in 1989. The specific epithet honours Francis David Hockings who discovered the species in 1983.

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in the shrubby understorey of woodland or open forest in a three disjunct areas in south-eastern Queensland.

Conservation status

Grevillea hockingsii is listed as "vulnerable" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.