| Grevillea umbellulata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Grevillea |
| Species: | G. umbellulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Grevillea umbellulata | |
| Synonyms | |
Grevillea acerosa F.Muell. | |
Grevillea umbellulata is a shrub which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
The lignotuberous shrub typically grows a height of 0.35 to 1.8 m (1 ft 2 in to 5 ft 11 in) and has hairy branchlets. The hairy green leaves are arranged alternately and have a length of 10 to 50 mm (0.39 to 1.97 in) and a width of 1 to 2 mm (0.039 to 0.079 in). It produces white, cream, pink or grey flowers between July and December (mid winter to early summer) in its native range. [1] [2]
The species was first formally described by botanist Carl Meissner, his description published in Plantae Preissianae in 1848. [3]
The shrub is found from around the Shire of Irwin in the north down as far as Albany in the south and as far as Ravensthorpe in the east. It is found in a variety of habitats including plains, slopes, swamps, river banks and railway verges growing in sandy, clay or gravel soils around or over granite, limestone or laterite. [1]
Grevillea wilsonii, also known as Wilson's grevillea or native fuchsia is a shrub that is endemic to south western parts of Western Australia.
Grevillea candicans 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 pinnately-divided leaves with sharply-pointed linear lobes, and cream-coloured flowers.
Grevillea hookeriana, commonly known as red toothbrushes or Hooker's grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub, usually with linear leaves or deeply divided leaves with linear lobes, and toothbrush-shaped groups of red, black or yellowish green flowers, the style maroon to black.
Grevillea argyrophylla, the silvery-leaved grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, sometimes low-lying shrub with egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers, sometimes tinged with pink.
Grevillea stenomera, commonly known as lace net grevillea, is a shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to the Gascoyne and north western parts of the Mid West regions of Western Australia, occurring between Kalbarri and Tamala.
Grevillea diversifolia, the variable-leaved grevillea, 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 prostrate shrub with simple or divided leaves and groups white to cream-coloured flowers with a dull red style.
Grevillea maxwellii is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south west region of Western Australia. It is low-lying to spreading shrub divided leaves with linear, sharply-pointed lobes, and clusters of pinkish-orange to pinkish-red flowers with a deep pinkish red style.
Grevillea aspera, commonly known as the rough grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Australia, occurring mainly in South Australia. It is low, spreading to erect shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and pinkish to red and cream-coloured, green, yellow or white flowers.
Grevillea nana, commonly known as dwarf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low, mounded, dense shrub with divided leaves with sharply-pointed, linear lobes, and clusters of pink, ornage, yellow or red flowers.
Grevillea granulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with linear leaves and red to orange flowers in clusters of up to eight.
Grevillea insignis, commonly known as wax grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with more or less oblong leaves with seven to seventeen sharply-pointed, triangular teeth, and more or less spherical or cylindrical clusters of cream-coloured flowers ageing to pink.
Grevillea saccata, commonly known as pouched grevillea, is a shrub which is endemic to the south-west region of Western Australia.
Grevillea brachystylis, also known as short-styled grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading to erect shrub with linear to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrow end towards the base, and wheel-like clusters of hairy red flowers.
Grevillea calliantha, commonly known as Foote's grevillea, Cataby grevillea or black magic grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, compact shrub with pinnatipartite leaves with linear lobes, and pale yellow to apricot-coloured flowers with a maroon-black to reddish style.
Grevillea coccinea is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a low-lying or sprawling shrub with narrowly wedge-shaped to linear leaves and white, cream-coloured, and red or yellow flowers.
Grevillea erinacea is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with deeply-divided leaves with three to five linear lobes, rotated through 90°, and cream-coloured flowers with a white style.
Grevillea pilulifera, commonly known as the woolly-flowered grevillea, is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia.
Grevillea scabra, commonly known as the rough-leaved grevillea, is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
Grevillea secunda is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
Grevillea spinosa, also known as the spiny grevillea, is an evergreen shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the east of the Mid West, northern Goldfields-Esperance and southern Pilbara regions of Western Australia.