Grevillea obtusiflora
Grevillea obtusiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a small area of eastern New South Wales. It is a low, spreading to erect shrub with many stems, narrowly elliptic to oblong or linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and pinkish-red and cream-coloured flowers with a red style.
Description
Grevillea obtusiflora is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of has many stems. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to oblong or linear to narrowly egg-shaped, mostly long and wide with the edges turned down or rolled under, sometimes covering the silky-hairy lower surface. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in sometimes branched clusters, each cluster with up to six flowers on a woolly-hairy rachis long. The flowers are pink to pinkish-red and cream-coloured with a red style, the pistil usually long. Flowering time varies with subspecies and the fruit is a narrowly elliptic follicle long.Taxonomy
Grevillea obtusiflora was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in his Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae from specimens collected by Allan Cunningham in the Blue Mountains in 1822. The specific epithet means "blunt-flowered".The names of two subspecies of G. obtusiflora have been accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Grevillea obtusiflora subsp. fecunda Makinson has leaves wide with the leaves turned down or rolled under, obscuring most of the lower surface, the pistil mostly long. Flowering occurs from August to December. This subspecies is only known to reproduce from rhizomes and does not develop fruit.Grevillea obtusiflora R.Br. subsp. obtusiflora has leaves wide with the leaves turned down or rolled under, but leaving most of the lower surface exposed, the pistil usually long. Flowering occurs from July to October. This subspecies reproduces from rhizomes but does develop fruit.