Grevillea crithmifolia R.Br.

Dense shrub 0.6-2.5 (-5) m tall, or rarely prostrate. Branchlets villous. Leaves dorsiventral, 1-2 (-3.5) cm long, crowded, entire and c. 0.7 mm wide, or 2-5-partite and 5-10 mm wide, often simple and divided leaves mixed; entire leaves and lobes linear to narrowly oblong, lacking secondary division; lobes 0.7-1.7 mm wide, often gently curved, sometimes weakly divaricate; margins revolute; lower surface enclosed, 2-grooved, with grooves and midveins pilose to villous. Conflorescence usually terminal, simple, erect, umbelloid or subcorymbose or rarely conical, acropetal; rachis 6-12 (-24) mm long, densely villous. Flowers acroscopic to irregular. Flower colour: perianth sometimes pink in bud becoming paler pink to creamy white after anthesis; style cream-white. Perianth sparsely villous inside. Pistil 4.8-6 mm long; style exposed but scarcely exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter oblique, conical with basal rim. Follicle ellipsoidal to ovoid, 12-15 mm long, muricate-echinate.

Grows in subcoastal woodland or coastal scrub in calcareous sand and limestone soils on dunes, slopes and sandplains, often near to the coast.