Grevillea polybractea

Spreading much-branched shrub 0.3–1.8 m high. Leaves entire, linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3–7.5 cm long, 1–6 mm wide; margin revolute, sometimes obscuring the subvillous lower surface. Conflorescences terminal, decurved, simple, subglobose, conspicuously bracteose especially when young, 1.5–2 cm long, 3–3.5 cm across; rachis 3–10 mm long, villous; perianth yellow or red (often deepening in colour with age), persistent to fruiting stage, bulbous below the curve, outer surface villous, inner surface bearded; pistil 9.5–14 mm long, ovary sessile, villous, style pink to red or orange, villous at base, glabrescent towards apex and almost glabrous ventrally, pollen presenter lateral. Fruits villous and subvelutinous. Flowers Oct.–Dec.