Grevillea parallela Knight

Single-stemmed shrub or tree, 2.5-15 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, 10-40 cm long, simple and linear to strap-like and 1.5-10 mm wide, or pinnatipartite to pinnatisect with 3-9 ascending linear (rarely subtriangular) lobes 2-20 cm long and 0.9-10 mm wide; margins recurved to shortly revolute; surfaces dissimilar with lower surface sericeous, with 1-7 parallel longitudinal veins. Conflorescence usually terminal or occasionally axillary, erect, usually paniculately 3-7-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 6-10 cm long, acropetal to subsynchronous. Flowers transverse on rachis. Flower colour: perianth and style white or cream to pale yellow-green. Perianth glabrous outside or occasionally subsericeous to tomentose, partly pilose inside or papillose or rarely tuberculate to smooth. Nectary arcuate. Pistil 13-26 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter oblique, conical to convex. Follicle compressed-ellipsoidal to lenticular, 14-29 mm long, glabrous, granulose, not viscid.

Found on a range of sites including sandstone plateaux, coastal high ranges or tableland complex of volcanic, basalitc or lateritic hilly lowlands, and sand plains and undulating alluvial plains with scattered hills at elevations up to 900 metres.

Nectar can be sucked from the flowers.

Plants can be grown from seeds. The seed coat needs to be peeled off or soaked in hot but not boiling water. It can be grown from cuttings treated with rooting hormone.