Grevillea oxyantha
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| Grevillea oxyantha | |
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| Subsp. oxyantha in Deua National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Grevillea |
| Species: | G. oxyantha |
| Binomial name | |
| Grevillea oxyantha | |
Grevillea oxyantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with somewhat silky-hairy branchlets, broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or almost round leaves, and hairy, crimson and pink flowers with a red style.
Grevillea oxyantha is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) and has silky-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or almost round, 20–60 mm (0.79–2.36 in) long and 15–35 mm (0.59–1.38 in) wide, the lower surface covered with woolly or silky hairs. The flowers are arranged in more or less cylindrical clusters on a rachis 8–45 mm (0.31–1.77 in) long. The flowers are scarlet to crimson and woolly- or silky-hairy on the outside, pink inside, the pistil 18–24 mm (0.71–0.94 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to December and the fruit is a glabrous, oval to elliptic follicle 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long.[2][3][4][5]