Grevillea petrophiloides

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Grevillea petrophiloides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Grevillea
Species:
G. petrophiloides
Binomial name
Grevillea petrophiloides
Habit in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne Grevillea petrophiloides Cranbourne.jpg
Habit in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne
Fruit of subsp. petrophiloides at Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan Grevillea petrophiloides fruit.jpg
Fruit of subsp. petrophiloides at Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan

Grevillea petrophiloides, commonly known as pink pokers, [2] rock grevillea or poker grevillea, [3] 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.

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Description

Grevillea petrophiloides is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–4 m (3 ft 3 in – 13 ft 1 in). Its leaves are 60–250 mm (2.4–9.8 in) long and divided, with three to nine lobes that are sometimes divided again, resulting in more than ten end lobes that are linear, 10–130 mm (0.39–5.12 in) long and 0.5–3.5 mm (0.020–0.138 in) wide. The flowers are arranged in clusters on the ends of sometimes branched canes held above the foliage, the clusters cylindrical on a rachis 60–200 mm (2.4–7.9 in) long. The flowers are usually pink to reddish pink and bluish-grey, varying with subspecies, the pistil 14–21.5 mm (0.55–0.85 in) long. Flowering time varies with subspecies and the fruit is an oval to more or less spherical follicle 7–18 mm (0.28–0.71 in) long. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Grevillea petrophiloides was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae based on plant material collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony. [5] [6] The specific epithet (petrophiloides) means " Petrophile -like". [7] In 1986, Donald McGillivray described three subspecies of G. petrophiloides in his book New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae), two of which have been accepted by the Australian Plant Census, and in 2000, Robert Owen Makinson changed to name of Grevillea magnifica subsp. remota Olde & Marriott to G. petrophiloides subsp. remota in the Flora of Australia :

Distribution and habitat

Subspecies magnifica grows on or near granite outcrops mainly between Tammin and Pantapin in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee bioregions, subspecies petrophiloides in shrubland or heath on sandplains between the lower Murchison River, Quairading and Hyden in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Mallee bioregions and subspecies remota grows on or near granite outcrops from near Varley to Norseman in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [9] [10] [12] [13] [15] [16]

Conservation status

Subspecies magnifica and petrophiloides are listed as "not threatened" but subspecies remota is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [9] [12] [15] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. [17]

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