Grevillea montis-cole

Grevillea montis-cole is a straggling to open, semi-erect shrub that typically grows to high and wide, the branchlets with a few shaggy hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped, long and wide in outline and divided with 5 to 15 spreading lobes that are in turn divided with 2 to 5 lobes, the end lobes narrowly oblong, long, wide and sharply pointed. The edges of the leaves and leaflets are rolled under and the lower surface has a few woolly hairs. The flowers are arranged on one side of a rachis long and are silky- to shaggy-hairy, the pistil long. The flowers are greenish to fawn on the outsided, dull purplish inside, with a bright red style. Flowering occurs from October to March and the fruit is a woolly- or silky-hairy follicle long. ==Taxonomy==

Grevillea montis-cole was first formally described in 1983 by Raymond Vaughan Smith in the journal Muelleria from specimens he collected in the Mount Cole State Forest in 1965. In the same journal, Smith described two subspecies and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: • Grevillea montis-cole R.V.Sm. subsp. brevistyla (commonly known as Langi Ghiran grevillea) is a low spreading shrub growing to high and that has pistils that are less than long, and leaves that are shorter and broader than those of the autonym. (commonly known as Glut grevillea), is a shrub that grows to a height of between and has pistils longer than . ==Distribution and habitat==

Subspecies brevistyla occurs on the upper slopes of Mount Langi Ghiran at an altitude of among granitic outcrops. Subspecies montis-cole occurs in Mount Cole State Forest. It grows as an understorey shrub in tall eucalypt forest on soil derived from decomposed granite at an altitude of about . ==Conservation status==

Subspecies brevistyla is listed as "Vulnerable" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, "threatened" in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, and as "Vulnerable in Victoria" on the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria. Subspecies montis-cola is listed as "Rare in Victoria" on the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria. ==References==