Grevillea hockingsii is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves and clusters of reddish-pink flowers.
Grevillea hockingsii is a dense, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of high and has ascending, silky-hairy branchlets. Its adult leaves are oblong to narrowly elliptic, long and 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 long on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel about long. The flowers are reddish pink, hairy and slightly rust-coloured, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to December and the fruit is an elliptic to narrowly oval follicle long.[1] [2]
Grevillea 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.[3] The specific epithet (hockingsii) honours Francis David Hockings who discovered the species in 1983.[4]
This grevillea grows in the shrubby understorey of woodland or open forest in a three disjunct areas in south-eastern Queensland.
Grevillea hockingsii is listed as "vulnerable" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[5]