Grevillea monslacana, commonly known as Lake Mountain grevillea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to mountainous areas of eastern Victoria in Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with narrowly egg-shaped leaves and clusters of pink to reddish pink flowers.
Grevillea monslacana is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has densely woolly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes narrowly elliptic, mostly long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is usually glabrous, the lower surface silky-hairy, and the edges curved downwards. The flowers are arranged in sometimes branched clusters on a rachis long and are pink to reddish-pink, rarely white, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from October to April and the fruit is a faintly ridged follicle about long.[2] [3]
Grevillea monslacana was first formally described in 2000 by Val Stajsic and Bill Molyneux in the Flora of Australia from specimens collected in the Rubicon State Forest in 1995.[4]
Lake Mountain grevillea grows in wet forest and open woodland at altitudes between and occurs in the area north and north-east of Marysville.
Grevillea monslacana is listed as "critically endangered" in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988[5] and is listed as "rare in Victoria" on the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria.[6]