Grevillea glauca

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Grevillea glauca
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Grevillea
Species:
G. glauca
Binomial name
Grevillea glauca
Synonyms [2]

Grevillea gibbosa R.Br.

Grevillea glauca, commonly known as bushman's clothes peg, cobblers peg tree, beefwood tree, [3] nut wood, nalgo, or kawoj in New Guinea, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is native to Papua New Guinea and north-eastern Queensland. It is an erect, spindly shrub or small tree with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and cylindrical clusters of cream-coloured to greenish-white flowers.

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Description

Grevillea glauca is an erect, spindly shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 2–10 m (6 ft 7 in – 32 ft 10 in) or more. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, 60–200 mm (2.4–7.9 in) long and 10–65 mm (0.39–2.56 in) wide and covered on both sides with soft hairs. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in cylindrical groups 60–180 mm (2.4–7.1 in) long and are cream-coloured to greenish-white, the pistil 14–16.5 mm (0.55–0.65 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from April to August and the fruit is a more or less spherical, glabrous follicle 24–40 mm (0.94–1.57 in) long. [5]

Taxonomy

Grevillea glauca was first formally described in 1809 by Joseph Knight in On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae , from an unpublished description by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander of a plant discovered by Banks near the Endeavour River. [6] [7]

Distribution and habitat

Bushman's clothes peg grows in a range of habitats including forest and woodland and occurs in Queensland from Cape York to Jericho and in Papua New Guinea.

Conservation status

Grevillea glauca is currently listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is widely distributed and its population appears stable and locally common. There are no major threats affecting this species, either currently or in the near future, however it is threatened by land clearing for agriculture in some localised populations. [1]

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<i>Grevillea didymobotrya</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae native to Western Australia

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<i>Grevillea decurrens</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae native to northern Australia

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<i>Grevillea diversifolia</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae native to Western Australia

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<i>Grevillea jephcottii</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Victoria, Australia

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<i>Grevillea parallela</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to northern Australia

Grevillea parallela, also known as silver oak, beefwood or white grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a single-stemmed shrub or small tree with pinnatisect or pinnatipartite leaves, the lobes linear to strap-like, and cylindrical clusters of white to cream-coloured or pale yellowish-green flowers.

<i>Grevillea evansiana</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to New South Wales, Australia

Grevillea evansiana, commonly known as Evans grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a low, dense, spreading shrub with elliptic leaves and usually blackish-red flowers with a burgundy-coloured style.

<i>Grevillea helmsiae</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Queensland, Australia

Grevillea helmsiae, commonly known as Helms' grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub or tree with elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and small clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers with a green style.

<i>Grevillea viridiflava</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to New South Wales, Australia

Grevillea viridiflava, commonly known as linear-leaf grevillea, is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and clusters of 12 to 24 white flowers with a yellowish-green or cream-coloured style.

<i>Grevillea mimosoides</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to north and central Australia

Grevillea mimosoides, commonly known as caustic bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with curved, narrowly elliptic or egg-shaped leaves and greenish-white to cream-coloured or pale yellow flowers.

<i>Grevillea dimidiata</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae native to Australia

Grevillea dimidiata, also known as the caustic bush or willings tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with glabrous, more or less sickle-shaped, curved leaves with wavy edges, and cylindrical groups of greenish-white to cream-coloured flowers.

<i>Grevillea brachystachya</i> Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae from Western Australia

Grevillea brachystachya, commonly known as short-spiked grevillea, 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 linear leaves and more or less spherical clusters of cream-coloured to greenish flowers.

Grevillea dunlopii is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the northern part of the Northern Territory. It is a spreading shrub with divided leaves with nine to seventeen spreading lobes, and pale cream-coloured to white flowers.

References

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  7. Knight, Joseph (1809). On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae. p. 121. Retrieved 28 April 2022.