Grevillea polybractea H.B.Will.

Spreading shrub 0.3-1.8 m high. Leaves entire, linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3-7.5 cm long, 1-6 mm wide; margins loosely to tightly revolute; upper surface becoming glabrous and granular; lower surface sometimes obscured, subvillous. Conflorescence terminal, simple, decurved, very dense, subglobose and often subsecund, with 10-20 (-34) flowers, acropetal; floral rachis 3-10 mm long, villous. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth yellow and orange or yellow and red (hairs reddish); style dull pink to reddish orange. Perianth villous outside, bearded inside, usually persistent to fruiting stage. Pistil 9.5-14 mm long; ovary sessile, villous; style villous at base, becoming glabrous towards apex and ventrally, weakly exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicles obloid-ellipsoidal, 12-15 mm long, villous and subvelutinous, with 3 faint longitudinal dorsal ridges.

Grows in well-drained sites in open eucalypt forest with sclerophyllous shrubby understorey, in stony soils often over granite.