Grevillea longicuspis

Grevillea longicuspis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a small area of the Northern Territory in Australia. It is a shrub with divided leaves that are egg-shaped in outline with sharply-pointed teeth or lobes, and clusters of red flowers with a red or creamy pink style.

Description

Grevillea longicuspis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branchlets and leaves partly covered with glandular hairs. Its leaves are egg-shaped in outline, long and wide on a petiole long, and are usually divided with four to eight sharply-pointed triangular teeth or lobes. The flowers are arranged in more or less spherical to oval clusters on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are red and glabrous, the style red to pinkish- or lemony-cream, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is a glabrous, oblong follicle long.

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in open woodland in sandy soil, and is restricted to a small area near Darwin in the Northern Territory.

Conservation status

Grevillea longicuspis is listed as "near threatened" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Act.