Grevillea shiressii Blakely

Erect shrub 1.5-5 m high. Leaves oblong-elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, (6-) 8-19 (-21) cm long, (9-) 13-30 mm wide; margins sometimes undulate; surfaces glabrous except for appressed hairs when young. Conflorescence terminal or axillary or occasionally cauline, erect, usually simple, occasionally 2-or 3-branched, a loose 2-10-flowered cluster, acropetal to subsynchronous; floral rachis 1-8 mm long. Flowers ±acroscopic; pedicels 9-19 mm long. Flower colour: perianth green in bud, becoming translucent, basally and dorsally bluish to mauve, cream elsewhere; style reddish to brown-maroon, with bright green ovary and tip. Perianth glabrous outside, partly tuberculate inside. Pistil 27-32 mm long, glabrous or sometimes with scattered minute erect simple hairs on ovary and style; stipe 10.5-12.5 mm long; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ellipsoidal, 14-16 mm long, glabrous.

Grows in wet sclerophyll forest or shrub associations on lower slopes and beside streamlines, in alluvial sandy or loamy soils.