Grevillea candicans

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Grevillea candicans
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In Kings Park, Perth
Status DECF P3.svg
Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Grevillea
Species:
G. candicans
Binomial name
Grevillea candicans

Grevillea candicans is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub with pinnately-divided leaves with sharply-pointed linear lobes, and cream-coloured flowers.

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Description

Grevillea candicans is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). Its leaves are pinnately divided, 80–240 mm (3.1–9.4 in) long, with two to seven erect, sharply pointed, linear lobes 40–180 mm (1.6–7.1 in) long and 0.7–1 mm (0.028–0.039 in) wide with the edges turned under. The lower surface of the leaves has two hairy grooves. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets in cylindrical groups 140–210 mm (5.5–8.3 in) long, and are cream-coloured, the pistil 27–30 mm (1.1–1.2 in) long and glabrous. Flowering mostly occurs from August to November and the fruit is a glabrous follicle 22–26 mm (0.87–1.02 in) long. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Grevillea candicans was first formally described in 1942 by Charles Gardner in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia from specimens collected by William Blackall. [4] [5] The specific epithet (candicans) means "becoming white or whitish". [6]

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in sandy soil in open shrubland or woodland from near Geraldton to the Murchison River with an isolated population east of Dalwallinu, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Grevillea candicans is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [2] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. [7]

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References

  1. "Grevillea candicans". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Grevillea candicans". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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  4. "Grevillea candicans". APNI. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  5. Gardner, Charles A. (1943). "Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XI". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 27: 170. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 157. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 15 February 2022.