Grevillea obtusifolia, commonly known as obtuse leaved grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading to dense, prostrate shrub with oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves and clusters of eight to twelve, pink or red flowers.
Grevillea obtusifolia is a spreading or dense, low-lying or prostrate shrub that typically grows to and up to wide, its branchlets silky-hairy. The leaves are oblong to narrowly elliptic, long and mostly wide, the lower surface silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in clusters of 8 to 12 on a rachis long, and are pale to bright pink or red, the pistil long. Flowering mostly occurs from April to November and the fruit is an oblong follicle long.[1]
Grevillea obtusifolia was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected in the Swan River Colony by James Drummond.[2] [3] The specific epithet (obtusifolia) means "blunt-leaved".[4]
Obtuse leaved grevillea grows in poorly-drained, winter-wet areas from Gingin to Muchea in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.