Grevillea bedggoodiana
Grevillea bedggoodiana, commonly known as Enfield grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with coarsely serrated, egg-shaped to oblong leaves and green and pink flowers. Description. "Grevillea bedggoodiana" is a prostrate to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to with hairy branchlets. Its leaves are egg-shaped to oblong in outline, long and wide, with five to nine lobes or teeth, or sometimes pinnatifid. The flowers are arranged  in more or less one-sided groups, the rachis hairy and long. The flowers are green at first, becoming pink, the style glabrous green, later deep pink, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from October to November and the fruit is a softly-hairy follicle long. Taxonomy. "Grevillea bedggoodiana" was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray from an unpublished description by Jim Willis, in McGillivray's book "New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae)". The specific epithet commemorates Stella Bedggood (1916-1978) a member of the Ballarat Field Naturalists' Club. Distribution and habitat. Enfield grevillea occurs in eucalypt woodland between Enfield  and Smythesdale near Ballarat in Victoria. Conservation status. The species is listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act", and as "vulnerable" in Victoria under the "Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988" and the Department of Environment and Primary Industries "Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria".