Carrington Falls grevillea

Description

Grevillea rivularis, the Carrington Falls grevillea, is a shrub species which is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It has a dense, spreading habit growing to 2.5 metres high The leaves are bipinnatipartite with 3 to 9 primary lobes. Flowers appear between September and April (early spring to mid autumn) in its native range. These have a translucent cream to purple-pink or mauve perianths that are cream at the base and pale pink or mauve toward the green-tipped styles The species was first formally described by Australian taxonomic botanists Lawrie Johnson and Donald McGillivray in 1960, their description published in Telopea. Grevillea rivularis occurs among other shrubs on moist creekside sites in the Carrington Falls area in the Central Tablelands. The species is listed under the New South Wales Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and has a ROTAP listing as "2VCi".