''Grevillea kedumbensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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to a restricted locale in the Great Dividing Range in central

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in Australia. It is a twiggy shrub with narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of hairy green to cream-coloured flowers.

Description

''Grevillea kedumbensis'' is a twiggy, lignotuber-forming shrub that typically grows to a height of high. The leaves are narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a short petiole. The upper surface of the leaves is grainy and the lower surface covered with silky hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of 12 to 20 on a silky-hairy rachis long. The flowers are green to cream-coloured and hairy, the

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long and the style pink to dull red with a green tip. Flowering mainly occurs in winter and spring, though can occur at other times of year.

Taxonomy

First collected by Alec Blombery in the Kedumba Valley in 1986, this grevillea was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray, who gave it the name ''Grevillea obtusiflora'' subsp. ''kedumbensis'' in his ''New names in Grevillea (Proteaceae)''. In 1994,

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and

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raised the subspecies to species level as ''Grevillea kedumbensis'' in the journal '' Telopea''.

Distribution and habitat

''Grevillea kedumbensis'' grows in dry forest and is restricted to the area between the Kedumba Valley below Katoomba and Scotts Main Range near

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5607955 kedumbensis Flora of New South Wales Proteales of Australia Plants described in 1986 Taxa named by Donald McGillivray