Grevillea aquifolium Lindl.

Erect-spreading to decumbent or prostrate shrub to 1.5 (-4) m tall. Leaves very variable, (2-) 3-7 (-10.5) cm long, 10-45 mm wide, usually ovate to oblong in gross outline and pinnatifid or toothed with 2-19 spreading lobes or teeth, sometimes cuneate or rhomboid with 2-5 teeth near apex, rarely entire and elliptic to rhomboid; primary lobes sometimes with a single secondary tooth on distal edge; ultimate lobes triangular to narrowly so or ovate, 5-17 mm long, 2-8 mm wide, usually pungent; margins flat to shortly recurved; lower surface densely to openly tomentose with straight to curled semi-appressed to spreading hairs. Unit conflorescence decurved or sometimes erect, secund; floral rachis 15-50 mm long. Flower colour: perianth grey, green, cream, or dull orange-pink; style usually red, or sometimes pink, orange, or dull yellow. Perianth loosely to densely tomentose outside, often villous on limb. Pistil 21-26 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 9.5-13 mm long, tomentose.

Grows in a wide range of habitats usually in woodland or dry to wet heath or mallee associations, in siliceous or sometimes calcareous sandy soils.