Holly Grevillea

Grevillea ilicifolia is an erect to spreading or prostrate shrub typically 0.3–2 m (1 ft 0 in – 6 ft 7 in) high and 3 m (9.8 ft) wide. Its leaves are variably-shaped, typically egg-shaped in outline, 18–101 mm (0.71–3.98 in) long and 3–80 mm (0.12–3.15 in) wide with two to thirteen lobes each with sharply-pointed triangular to egg-shaped lobes or teeth 7–50 mm (0.28–1.97 in) long and 0.8–8 mm (0.031–0.315 in) wide. The flowers are usually arranged in clusters on a rachis 20–50 mm (0.79–1.97 in) long and are green to cream-coloured and mauve to grey, the pistil is 19.5–25 mm (0.77–0.98 in) long. The style is pink to red, sometimes orange to pale yellow, and green-tipped. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a hairy follicle 10.5–16.5 mm (0.41–0.65 in) long.

Grevillea ilicifolia grows in mallee, heath or shrubland in south-eastern South Australia, including the Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island, in western inland Victoria, and near Griffith in western New South Wales. Subspecies lobata is restricted to north-western Victoria and the Murray and South-eastern botanical districts of South Australia.