Grevillea prasina
Grevillea prasina is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a spreading or straggly shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with coarsely-toothed edges, and dense, cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers, the style pale green to white.
Description
Grevillea prasina is a spreading or straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its leaves are egg-shaped or elliptic in outline, long and wide with 5 to 11 evenly-spaced teeth on the edges, both surfaces more or less glabrous and bright yellowish-green. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches or in leaf axils in dense, sometimes branched clusters, each cluster oval to short-cylindrical on a rachis long. The flowers are fragrant, cream-coloured at first, later pale yellow and the style is green to white with a green tip, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is glabrous, elliptic follicle long.
Taxonomy
Grevillea prasina was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book New Names in Grevillea from specimens collected by Rayden Alfred Perryon " W/N.W. of Wave Hill Police Station" in 1949. The specific epithet means "leek green".
This grevillea grows in open woodland or shrubland between the Pentecost River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Port Keats in the Northern Territory, with a few scattered populations as far east as the Gulf of Carpentaria.