Grevillea repens
Grevillea repens, the creeping grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a prostrate, often mat-forming shrub, that has leaves with 5 to 19 teeth or lobes, and light green or grey, toothbrush-like flowers with reddish striations and a deep red, or dull orange to yellow style.
Description
Grevillea repens is a prostrate trailing, often mat-forming shrub that typically grows up to wide. Its leaves are narrowly oblong to egg-shaped or elliptic, long and wide, usually with 5 to 19 teeth or lobes up to long and more or less evenly spaced around the edges. The teeth are sometimes sharply pointed and the lower surface is usually covered with wavy hairs pressed against the surface. The flowers are arranged in clusters on the ends of the branches, on one side of a rachis long, and are light green or grey with reddish striations, the pistil long and the style deep red, or dull orange to yellow and glabrous. Flowering occurs from October to April and the dry fruit is a silky-hairy follicle long.Taxonomy
Grevillea repens was first formally described in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller from an unpublished description by Carl Meissner and von Mueller's description was published in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Government. The specific epithet means "prostrate" or "creeping".This grevillea is a member of the 'southern holly-leaf grevilleas' and is closely related to G. obtecta.