Grevillea beardiana Mcgill.

Spreading shrub 0.3-1.5 m tall. Leaves entire, linear to very narrowly cuneate, 1-5.5 cm long, 0.7-2.0 mm wide, sometimes also a few leaves 2-or 3-partite with similar ascending lobes, sometimes pungent; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, packed with appressed hairs in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect to deflexed, secund; floral rachis 18-45 mm long. Flower colour: perianth bright red or orange; style bright red or orange with a green to pale tip. Perianth subsericeous outside. Pistil 28-31.5 mm long; stipe 2.5-5.1 mm long; style glabrous. Follicle 7.5-11.5 mm long, tomentose with biramous hairs only.

Grows in heathy associations in sandy soils over laterite, and on lateritic rises; occasionally in mallee heaths and in granitic soils.