2. Species Information
2.1 Ecology Grevillea hockingsii is a dense, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5–2 m high and has ascending, silky-hairy branchlets. Its adult leaves are oblong to narrowly elliptic, 40–140 mm long and 4–18 mm wide. The lower surface of the leaves is silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the stems in clusters of two to ten 15–22 mm long on a rachis 2–5 mm long, each flower on a pedicel about 4 mm long. The flowers are reddish pink, hairy and slightly rust-coloured, the pistil 13–17.5 mm long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to December, and the fruit is an elliptic to narrowly oval follicle 20–36 mm long. G. hockingsii was first formally described in 2008 by Bill Molyneux and Peter M. Olde in the journal Telopea from specimens collected in the Coominglah State Forest, Queensland in 1989. The specific epithet (hockingsii) honours Francis David Hockings who discovered the species in 1983. As a member of the Proteaceae family, this species will not respond well to transplanting. It has been the authors experience that this species will be able to be grafted to other Grevillea species to maintain clonal diversity from the impact site. 2.2 Distribution Grevillea hockingsii only occurs in Queensland, where it is found in three disjunct areas: • Coominglah State Forest west of Monto with 21 occurrences in Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) (2025). • Callide Timber Reserve northeast of Biloela with 11 occurrences in AVH (2025). • Surrounding and within Mount Morgan with four occurrences in AVH (2025). The specimens collected near Mount Morgan were found from 1984 to 2001 and were collected on Razor Back Range, 3 km west of Mount Morgan. The species is typically found on slopes in hilly sandstone country, on shallow sandy to sandy loam soils which are light brown to red in colour and occasionally stony or gravelly. It grows in woodland or open forest communities typically dominated by Eucalyptus decorticans , Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata , Eucalyptus suffulgens or Eucalyptus acmenoides (DETSI 2025). The species has occasionally been described on the edge of soaks.
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Mundic Gully TSF Translocation Project - Grevillea hockingsii
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