Grevillea pterosperma F.Muell.

Erect shrub 2-4 m high. Leaves ascending, (3-) 6-18 cm long, entire and ±linear and 0.8-2 mm wide, or occasionally 2-6-partite with entire linear lobes 1-1.5 mm wide; upper surface with 3-5 longitudinal ridges; margins ±angularly revolute; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence erect, usually simple, sometimes few-branched; unit conflorescence dense, cylindrical, 6-8 cm long, basipetal or sometimes subsynchronous. Flowers oriented transversely to rachis. Flower colour: perianth greyish white outside, creamy white inside; style cream to pale yellow. Perianth subsericeous-villous outside, glabrous or with a few hairs at base inside; tepals lax and recurved after anthesis. Pistil 12-21 mm long; ovary stiffly villous; style glabrous or with hairs in basal c. 2 mm only; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicles 15-20 mm long, transverse to oblique on pedicel, thickly lenticular, subvelutinous to tomentose with short biramous hairs often also with simple erect glandular viscid hairs.

It grows in inland regions. They are sensitive to waterlogging. They do not grow well in heavy soils. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 9-11.

Plants are grown from seed.