Grevillea macleayana (Mcgill.) Olde & Marriott

Spreading to erect shrub, 1-4 m high. Leaves usually entire, elliptic to ovate, 2.5-20 cm long, 10-80 mm wide, or rarely sparingly pinnatifid with 2-5 oblong-ovate lobes; lobes (when present) 1-3 cm long, 10-20 mm wide, not pungent; margins flat or slightly recurved; lower surface densely pubescent with curly hairs. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 40-50 mm long. Flower colour: perianth greyish pink; style pale to dark pink, with a green tip. Perianth tomentose to villous or sublanate outside. Pistil 22-28.5 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 12-19 mm long, tomentose.

Grows usually in open shrubby woodland or heath in coastal sands, or occasionally in wet sclerophyll forest in sandy clay or loamy soils.