Grevillea ilicifolia

Erect to spreading to prostrate or procumbent shrub, 0.25–2.0 m high, 0.5–3 m wide. Branchlet indumentum sericeous, with longitudinally aligned, appressed, straight hairs, or with strongly curled hairs. Leaves ovate to obovate in outline and often markedly cuneate in basal half, with (2–)3–5(–15) primary lobes, occasionally with secondary lobes, first few leaves on shoot usually entire and elliptic; lobing shallow in cuneate to kite-shaped leaves, or shallow to deep in herring-bone or oak-shaped leaves, leaves 18–101 mm long, 3–80 mm wide; ultimate lobes triangular to oblong-ovate or occasionally linear, 7–33 mm long, 3–18 mm wide, usually pungent; lower surface subsericeous with straight hairs, or occasionally densely tomentose with curled hairs; margin almost flat or occasionally slightly recurved. Conflorescences usually terminal, erect or decurved, usually simple, secund, 18–50 mm long; rachises subsericeous to tomentose; perianth green to cream at base and mauve above, outer surface open-subsericeous or with scattered appressed hairs, or tomentose or glabrous, inner surface glabrous; pistil 19.5–25 mm long, ovary stipitate, subsericeous to tomentose, style pink to red occasionally orange or pale yellow, glabrous, style-end dorsally convex, with a gradual taper from the pollen presenter to the style, pollen presenter oblique. Fruits subsericeous to tomentose, with red-brown longitudinal markings. Flowers mainly Jun.–Feb.