Grevillea alpivaga, also known as Buffalo Grevillea, is a species of the plant genus Grevillea

Grevillea

Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae, native to Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Sulawesi. It was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to trees...

. It is endemic to Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

 in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The species grows as an erect to prostrate shrub, between 0.3 and 1 metre in height. Flowers usually appear between October and February (mid spring to late summer) in its native range. These have pale green, white or cream perianth

Perianth

The term perianth has two similar but separate meanings in botany:* In flowering plants, the perianth are the outer, sterile whorls of a flower...

s and style

Gynoecium

Gynoecium is most commonly used as a collective term for all carpels in a flower. A carpel is the ovule and seed producing reproductive organ in flowering plants. Carpels are derived from ovule-bearing leaves which evolved to form a closed structure containing the ovules...

s which are white to pale pink, becoming red.

It is very similar in appearance to both Grevillea gariwerdensis

Grevillea gariwerdensis

Grevillea gariwerdensis is a species of the plant genus Grevillea. It is endemic to Victoria in Australia. The species grows as a low, suckering shrub, between 0.3 and 1 metre in height. Flowers usually appear between October and January in its native range...

and Grevillea neurophylla

Grevillea neurophylla

Grevillea neurophylla, commonly known as Granite Grevillea, is a shrub species in the family Proteaceae. It is native to the states of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. The species was first formally described by French botanist Michel Gandoger in Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de...

subsp. neurophylla.

The species was first formally described by French botanist Michel Gandoger

Michel Gandoger

Abbott Jean Michel Gandoger , was a French botanist and mycologist.. Gandoger was born in Arnas, the son of a wealthy vineyard owner in the Beaujolais region. Although he took holy orders at the age of 26, he devoted his life to the study of botany, specializing in the genus Rosa...

 in the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France in 1919, from plant material collected from the Victorian Alps.

The species occurs in Eucalyptus piperata woodland on Mount Buffalo and towards Porepunkah

Porepunkah, Victoria

Porepunkah is a town in north east Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Great Alpine Road, at the foot of Mount Buffalo north east of the state capital, Melbourne and north west of Bright. Part of Alpine Shire Local government area and situated on the banks of the Ovens River, near the...

. It is listed as "Rare in Victoria" on the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria.