About Grevillea ramosissima Meisn.
Grevillea ramosissima Meisn. is a low, spreading shrub that typically grows 0.3 to 1.5 meters (1 foot 0 inch to 4 feet 11 inches) tall, and often forms root suckers. Its leaves are 30 to 80 millimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches) long and divided, usually with 3 to 11 lobes that are sometimes further divided. The end lobes are more or less triangular to egg-shaped, mostly 3 to 20 millimeters (0.12 to 0.79 inches) long and 2 to 7 millimeters (0.079 to 0.276 inches) wide, with sharply pointed tips. Leaf edges are curved downward, and the lower leaf surface is covered in woolly hairs. Flowers are arranged in conical to cylindrical clusters on a 25 to 85 millimeter (0.98 to 3.35 inch) long rachis, with flowers at the base of the cluster opening first. The flowers are cream-coloured to pale yellow, and the pistil is 3.5 to 5.3 millimeters (0.14 to 0.21 inches) long. Flowering occurs mainly in October and November, and the fruit is a woolly-hairy follicle that is 7.5 to 10 millimeters (0.30 to 0.39 inches) long. Subspecies hypargyrea is endemic to Victoria, where it grows in woodland on granite in a few isolated locations near the upper Murray River in the far north of the state. Subspecies ramosissima is endemic to New South Wales, where it occurs on the coast, tablelands and slopes south from near Glen Innes and Tenterfield.
