Grevillea glossadenia Mcgill.

Erect shrub 1-2 (-4) m tall. Leaves ±elliptic, 5-12 cm long, 20-35 mm wide, entire; margins slightly recurved, slightly undulate; lower surface sericeous. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, simple, short, a loose cluster, subsynchronous or flowers opening irregularly; floral rachis to 15 mm long. Flower colour: perianth deep yellow-orange to orange-red; style orange to reddish. Perianth subsericeous outside, pubescent inside. Pistil 26-32 mm long; stipe 7.5-9 mm long; ovary villous; style loosely villous near base becoming sparser above. Follicle obliquely obovoid, 10-14 mm long, subsericeous to subvillous; indumentum lacking coloured blotches.

Grows in eucalypt woodland or low open forest, in shallow granitic soils.