Grevillea fililoba | |
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In the San Francisco Botanical Garden | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Proteales |
Family: | Proteaceae |
Genus: | Grevillea |
Species: | G. fililoba |
Binomial name | |
Grevillea fililoba | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Grevillea thelemanniana subsp. fililobaMcGill. |
Grevillea fililoba is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with soft foliage, divided leaves with narrow linear lobes, and clusters of pink to bright red and white flowers.
Grevillea fililoba is a spreading shrub, typically up to about 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high and 3 m (9.8 ft) wide with soft, dense foliage. The leaves are 20–45 mm (0.79–1.77 in) long and divided, the lobes narrowly linear, sometimes curved, 2–20 mm (0.079–0.787 in) long and 0.3–0.7 mm (0.012–0.028 in) wide. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous, the edges rolled under obscuring most of the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in groups of twelve to thirty along a rachis 18–30 mm (0.71–1.18 in) long and are pink to bright red with a pink, green-tipped style, the pistil 24–28 mm (0.94–1.10 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is a triangular follicle about 13 mm (0.51 in) long. [2] [3]
This grevillea was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray who gave it the name Grevillea thelemanniana subsp. fililoba in his New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae) from specimens collected by Robert Royce in 1986. [4] In 1994, Peter M. Olde and Neil R. Marriott raised the subspecies to species level as Grevillea fililoba in The Grevillea Book. [5] The specific epithet (fililoba) means "thread-lobed". [6]
This grevillea grows in a range of habitats and is found east of Geraldton in the catchments of the Greenough and Irwin Rivers in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia. [2] [3]
Grevillea fililoba is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [3] meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk. [7]
This grevillea is well-known in cultivation, often by the cultivar names Grevillea 'Ellendale' or 'Ellendale Pool'. It is readily grown from seed or cuttings and grows best in well-drained soil in full sun, but is often short-lived in humid areas of eastern Australia. [8]
Grevillea petrophiloides, commonly known as pink pokers, rock grevillea or poker grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with divided leaves, the lobes mostly linear, and cylindrical clusters of usually pink to reddish pink and bluish-grey flowers.
Grevillea dielsiana, commonly known as Diels 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 shrub with divided leaves, the end lobes linear and tapering, and groups of red or orange flowers, often with streaks of pink or cream.
Grevillea vestita is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading, prickly shrub with lobed leaves, the number and arrangement of lobes depending on subspecies, and more or less spherical to dome-shaped clusters of hairy, white to cream-coloured flowers sometimes tinged with pink.
Grevillea thyrsoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a small, spreading or low-lying shrub, with pinnatisect to comb-like leaves, the end lobes linear, and clusters of hairy pinkish-red flowers.
Grevillea levis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a dense shrub with divided leaves, the end lobes linear and sharply pointed, and clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers, sometimes flushed with pink.
Grevillea leucopteris, also known as old socks or white plume 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, bushy shrub with divided leaves with erect, linear lobes and clusters of white to cream-colured flowers displayed above the foliage.
Grevillea hookeriana, commonly known as red toothbrushes or Hooker's 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 erect shrub, usually with linear leaves or deeply divided leaves with linear lobes, and toothbrush-shaped groups of red, black or yellowish green flowers, the style maroon to black.
Grevillea synapheae, commonly known as catkin grevillea, is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to erect shrub usually with divided leaves with 3 to 7 triangular to more or less linear lobes, and clusters of white to creamy yellow flowers.
Grevillea plurijuga is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southern Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying or dense mounded to erect shrub with divided leaves with linear lobes and loose clusters of hairy, red or pink flowers.
Grevillea nana, commonly known as dwarf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low, mounded, dense shrub with divided leaves with sharply-pointed, linear lobes, and clusters of pink, orange, yellow or red flowers.
Grevillea refracta, commonly known as silver-leaf grevillea, is a species of plant in the protea family and is native to northern Australia. It is a tree or shrub usually with pinnatipartite leaves and red and yellow flowers arranged on a branched, downcurved raceme.
Grevillea nematophylla, commonly known as water bush or silver-leaved water bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is shrub or small tree with simple or pinnatisect leaves, the leaves or lobes linear, and branched, cylindrical clusters of cream-coloured flowers.
Grevillea delta is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, spreading shrub with hairy branchlets, divided leaves with linear lobes, and groups of red flowers with a red, green-tipped style.
Grevillea erinacea is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with deeply-divided leaves with three to five linear lobes, rotated through 90°, and cream-coloured flowers with a white style.
Grevillea florida is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a erect, low shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and clusters of hairy, white to creamy yellow flowers with a yellow- or orange-tipped style that ages to red.
Grevillea obliquistigma is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with linear leaves, and conical to cylindrical clusters of creamy-white to yellowish cream-coloured flowers, sometimes tinged with pink.
Grevillea oligomera is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with sometimes-divided leaves, the leaves or lobes linear, and reddish-pink and blue-grey flowers with a reddish-pink style.
Grevillea papillosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the South West region of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with narrowly elliptic to linear, as well as deeply divided leaves, and pink-tinged, white flowers with a reddish-pink style.
Grevillea paradoxa, commonly known as the bottlebrush grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading, prickly shrub with pinnatipartite leaves, the lobes linear, widely spreading and sharply pointed, and with cylindrical clusters of pale to dark pink or cream-coloured flowers with a pinkish-red style.
Grevillea neodissecta is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is low, dense shrub with deeply divided leaves, the end lobes linear and sharply pointed, and small clusters of rose pink and white to cream-coloured flowers with a pinkish-red style.