Flowers. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Seed cases. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Bark of young stem. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Bark of old stem. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Comb Grevillea, Comb Spider-flower

Family

Proteaceae

Notes

Shrub, prostrate or to 3m tall.  Leaves with spiny tips, alternating up the stems, 1-6cm long, dissected, lobes 0.4-4cm long, 0.7-2.2m wide, linear to flat, hairless above, hairy below, edges rolled under, with spiny tips.  Spider flowers with 4 red to pink 'petals'.  Flower in racemes of few to 20 flowers, up to 3 racemes at the ends of the branches, occasionally along the branches.

Description and photos in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 213-214

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~huegelii