Grevillea striata R.Br.

Erect spindly shrub or robust tree 3-15 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, entire, linear to broadly so or strap-like, often wavy, 10-45 cm long, 2-15 mm wide; margins flat or shortly recurved; surfaces rather similar; lower surface longitudinally 5-13 striate, sericeous especially in grooves. Conflorescence usually terminal, erect, paniculately 4-12-branched or rarely simple; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 5-8 cm long, subsynchronous or weakly basipetal or acropetal. Flowers ±acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream or pale yellow. Perianth subsericeous to tomentose outside, pilose inside near ovary. Nectary minute, arcuate. Pistil 6-10 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter basally transverse to oblique, erect-conical. Follicle compressed obloid to ovoid, shortly subapically beaked, 13-21 mm long, glabrous, almost smooth, not viscid.

Widespread in dry inland areas, occasionally extending to near the coast in drier northern areas, in open mixed Acacia and Eucalyptus woodland, Triodia-shrubland communities, in a range of soil types.

The seeds are eaten. The nectar can be sucked from the flowers.

Plants can be grown from seed. Soaking the seed overnight improves germination. Or the seed coat can be peeled off.