Grevillea polybractea | |
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In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Proteales |
Family: | Proteaceae |
Genus: | Grevillea |
Species: | G. polybractea |
Binomial name | |
Grevillea polybractea | |
Grevillea polybractea, commonly known as crimson grevillea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southeast of continental Australia. It is a spreading shrub with linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves and pink to red and yellow or green flowers.
Grevillea polybractea is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1.8 m (1 ft 0 in – 5 ft 11 in) and has many branches. Its leaves are linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, 25–75 mm (0.98–2.95 in) long and 1–6 mm (0.039–0.236 in) wide, the edges rolled under, sometimes obscuring the lower surface which is otherwise hairy. The flowers are arranged in downturned, more or less spherical clusters of 10 to 20 flowers on a rachis 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long with many egg-shaped bracts 2.5–7 mm (0.098–0.276 in) long. The flowers are pink to red and yellow or green with a reddish style, the pistil 9.5–14 mm (0.37–0.55 in) long. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a hairy follicle 12–15 mm (0.47–0.59 in) long. [2] [3] [4]
Grevillea polybractea was first formally described in 1927 by Herbert Bennett Williamson in The Victorian Naturalist . [5] [6] The specific epithet (polybractea) means "many bracts". [7]
Crimson grevillea grows in forest with a scrubby understorey, and occurs south of Dubbo and west of Khancoban in New South Wales, and between Corryong and Mount Granya in far north-eastern Victoria.
This grevillea is listed as "endangered" under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 [4] and as "rare in Victoria" on the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare or Threatened Plants in Victoria. [8] 26
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Grevillea lanigera, commonly known as woolly grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading shrub with narrowly oblong to more or less linear leaves and clusters of pink to red, and cream-coloured flowers.
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Grevillea celata, commonly known as Nowa Nowa grevillea or Colquhoun grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of Victoria in Australia. It is an erect and open to low, dense shrub with oblong, broadly elliptic or linear leaves, and red and yellow, or red, white and apricot-coloured, sometimes all yellow flowers.
Grevillea montis-cole, commonly known as Mount Cole grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to central-western Victoria, Australia. It is a shrub with divided leaves with 5 to 15 lobes, the end lobes more or less triangular to narrowly oblong and sharply-pointed, and clusters of greenish to fawn and dull purplish flowers.
Grevillea bedggoodiana, commonly known as Enfield grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with coarsely serrated, egg-shaped to oblong leaves and green and pink flowers.
Grevillea oldei is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a small area of eastern New South Wales. It is a diffuse shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to more or less triangular leaves, and red flowers.
Grevillea gariwerdensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Grampians National Park in Victoria, Australia. It is a shrub with more or less linear to narrowly oblong leaves, and white to pink flowers with brownish hairs.
Grevillea mollis, commonly known as soft grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of north-eastern New South Wales. It is an open, spreading shrub with oblong to elliptic leaves and loose clusters of bright scarlet red flowers.
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Grevillea oxyantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with somewhat silky-hairy branchlets, broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or almost round leaves, and hairy, crimson and pink flowers with a red style.
Grevillea parvula , commonly known as Genoa grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to an area near the border between New South Wales and Victoria in south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub, usually with elliptic leaves, and down-turned clusters of pinkish to red flowers.
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