Grevillea obtecta

Prostrate to straggling shrub to 25 cm high, sometimes forming mats to 2 m across. Branchlet indumentum loosely villous to -tomentose. Leaves very variable, divided, 3–18 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, usually ovate to obovate in outline, 5–13(–19)-fid to -partite or occasionally simple and coarsely serrate, with triangular to oblong-ovate primary lobes 0.5–3 cm long, (0.2–)0.5–1.0(–1.5) cm wide; lower surface with an open indumentum of curved to curled hairs; margin recurved to flat. Conflorescences terminal, erect to decurved, simple, secund, 3.5–6 cm long; peduncles 5–15 mm long, (1–)1.2–1.5 mm wide; rachises villous; young inflorescences conspicuously bracteose; outer surface of perianth light green, loosely tomentose or villous, inner surface purplish-black and glabrous; pistil 12–15 mm long, ovary stipitate, subvillous, style yellow to pale or deep pink, glabrous except near base, pollen presenter oblique. Fruits subvillous. Flowers Aug.–Dec.