Grevillea diversifolia, the variable-leaved grevillea,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with simple or divided leaves and groups white to cream-coloured flowers with a dull red style.
Description
Grevillea diversifolia is an erect to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–6 m (7.9 in – 19 ft 8.2 in). Its leaves are more or less glabrous, lance-shaped with the narrower end toward the base to narrowly elliptic or almost linear, 15–85 mm (0.59–3.35 in) long and 1.5–11 mm (0.059–0.433 in) wide, sometimes narrowly wedge-shaped near the tip with two or three oblong lobes 3–15 mm (0.12–0.59 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide. The lower surface of the leaves is sometimes glabrous, sometimes densely covered with silky hairs. The flowers are arranged in erect, more or less sessile groups, sometimes on a peduncle up to 15 mm (0.59 in) long, the rachis 1.5–6 mm (0.059–0.236 in) long. The flowers are white to cream-coloured, silky- to woolly-hairy on the outside, the pistil 19.5–28 mm (0.77–1.10 in) long, the style dull red. The fruit is an oblong follicle 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) long.[3][4]
Grevillea diversifolia Meisn. subsp. diversifolia[7] has soft, pliable, sometimes lobed leaves, leaves lacking lobes are 3–11 mm (0.12–0.43 in) wide, and flowers throughout the year, but mainly in September and October;[8]
Grevillea diversifolia subsp. subtersericataMcGill.[9] has semi-rigid leaves, lacking lobes, 1.5–6 mm (0.059–0.236 in) wide and densely hairy on the lower surface, and flowers throughout the years but mainly from July to October.[10]
^"Grevillea diversifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
