Grevillea macleayana
Grevillea macleayana, commonly known as Jervis Bay grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic, sometimes lobed leaves, and greenish or greyish flowers with a pink to red style.
Description
Jervis Bay grevillea is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its leaves are usually elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide, sometimes with two to five oblong lobes long and wide. The lower surface of the leaves is densely covered with soft hairs. The flowers are arranged on one side of a rachis long and are greenish-white to greyish pink with a pink to red style, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from September to January and the fruit is a woolly-hairy follicle long.It is known from two distinct forms:
Coastal form - Occurs in the Jervis Bay to Ulladulla areas in open eucalypt woodland or heath. It usually grows as an open shrub from tall with mostly entire, elliptic leaves.
Woolly form - Occurs near Ulladulla and Bundanoon. Its leaves are coarse and usually lobed and its flowers have a woolly indumentum.
Similar species
Jervis Bay grevillea is closely related to the gully grevillea which differs by its larger habit, generally longer leaves, triangular lobes, narrower, more condensed inflorescence with flowers that have a silky ovary and conical shaped pollen presenters. It is also related to the laurel-leaf grevillea which differs in its prostrate habit and silky lower leaf surface.Taxonomy
Jervis Bay grevillea was first formally described as Grevillea barklyana subsp. macleayana in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book, New Names in Grevillea , from specimens collected near Bream Beach by Roger Coveny in 1971. In 1994, Peter Olde and Neil Marriott changed the name to Grevillea macleayana in The Grevillea Book. The specific epithet honours William John Macleay.Once described as the 'Deua form