Grevillea secunda

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Grevillea secunda
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Priority Four — Rare Taxa (DEC)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Grevillea
Species:
G. secunda
Binomial name
Grevillea secunda

Grevillea secunda is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. [1]

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Description

The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.5 metres (1.0 to 1.6 ft) and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple dissected leaves with a blade that is 40 to 90 millimetres (1.57 to 3.54 in). It blooms in July and produces a terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with red or pink flowers and red styles. Later it forms simple brown ellipsoidal hairy fruit that is 10 to 13 mm (0.4 to 0.5 in) long. [1]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist Donald McGillivray in 1986 as a part of the work New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae). [2] There is one synonym; Hakea secunda (McGill.) Christenh. & Byng. [3]

Distribution

The shrub is found in an area to the north east of Kalgoorlie from around the Queen Victoria Spring Nature Reserve in the south up to Plumridge Lake Nature Reserve in the north where it found growing on sand dunes and sand plains as a part of low shrubland communities. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Grevillea secunda". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  2. "Grevillea secunda McGill". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  3. "Grevillea secunda McGill". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew . Retrieved 21 January 2022.