Grevillea paradoxa

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Grevillea
Species:
G. paradoxa
Binomial name
Grevillea paradoxa

Grevillea paradoxa, commonly known as the bottlebrush grevillea, [2] 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.

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Description

Grevillea paradoxa is an erect to open, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–2 m (1 ft 8 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has prickly foliage. Its leaves are 15–55 mm (0.59–2.17 in) long and pinnatipartite, with 3 to 9 widely spreading, sharply pointed, linear lobes, each usually dividing at least once, the end lobes 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long and 0.5–1.5 mm (0.020–0.059 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in erect, cylindrical clusters on a rachis 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in) long, and are pale to dark pink or cream-coloured, the pistil 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in) long and the style pinkish-red or pale pink to cream. Flowering mainly occurs from June to October, and the fruit is an oval follicle 8–13 mm (0.31–0.51 in) long and hairy. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Grevillea paradoxa was first formally described in 1868 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by James Drummond. [4] [5] The specific epithet (paradoxa) means "unexpected, strange or marvellous", because von Mueller thought the plant looked Hakea -like. [6]

Distribution and habitat

Bottlebrush grevillea grows in mallee scrub and shrubland and is widespread between Mullewa, Wubin, Kondinin Kalgoorlie and the Die Hardy Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

This grevillea is listed as "not threatened", by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2]

Use in horticulture

The popular garden plant, Grevillea 'Dorothy Gordon', is a hybrid between G. sessilis and G. paradoxa. [7]

See also

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References

  1. "Grevillea paradoxa". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Grevillea paradoxa". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 "Grevillea paradoxa". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  4. "Grevillea paradoxa". APNI. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  5. von Mueller, Ferdinand (1868). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. Vol. 6. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. pp. 246–247. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 270. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. "Grevillea 'Dorothy Gordon'". Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 18 August 2016.