Grevillea decurrens, also known as the clothes-peg tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with divided leaves, the lobes elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and conical groups of pink or cream-coloured flowers.
Description
Grevillea decurrens is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are pinnatipartite with seven to thirteen elliptic to egg-shaped pliable lobes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups with up to six conical to cylindrical branches, the flowers arranged on one side of a rachis long and opening from the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are pink or cream-coloured, sometimes with a pink tinge, the pistil long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from November to March and the fruit is a more or less spherical follicle in diameter.
Taxonomy
Grevillea decurrens was first formally described in 1917 by Alfred James Ewart in The Flora of the Northern Territory from specimens collected by Walter Scott Campbell in 1911. The specific epithet (decurrens) means "decurrent".
Distribution and habitat
This grevillea grows in open, tropical woodland in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and as far south as Derby, and from TimberCreek to Darwin including Melville Island and east to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Conservation status
Grevillea decurrens is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife and of "least concern" in the Northern Territory.