Grevillea scabra

Grevillea scabra, commonly known as the rough-leaved grevillea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, open shrub with clusters of narrowly elliptic to more or less linear leaves and small clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers.

Rough leaved grevillea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Grevillea
Species:
G. scabra
Binomial name
Grevillea scabra

Description

Grevillea scabra is an open shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about 30 cm (12 in) and has erect branches. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to more or less linear, 5–35 mm (0.20–1.38 in) long, 1–6 mm (0.039–0.236 in) wide and clustered on short side branches. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the edges are rolled under obscuring most of the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in clusters of 2 to 6 on the ends of the short side branches and are white to cream-coloured, the end of the style yellow, ageing to reddish, the pistil 8–13.5 mm (0.31–0.53 in) long. The style has a conspicuous appendage that is C-shaped in side view. Flowering occurs in September and October, and the fruit is an oblong follicle 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) long.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy

Grevillea scabra was first formally described by the botanist Carl Meissner in 1845 in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.[5][6] The specific epithet (scabra) means "rough", referring to the surface of the leaves.[4][7]

Distribution

Rough-leaved grevillea grows in open forest or woodland, usually in soils containing laterite and is found in the area between York, Bolgart and Goomalling in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Grevillea scabra". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  2. "Grevillea scabra". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. "Grevillea scabra". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  4. Wrigley, John W.; Fagg, Murray A. (1991). Banksias, waratahs & grevilleas : and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson. pp. 326–327. ISBN 0207172773.
  5. "Grevillea scabra". APNI. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  6. Meissner, Carl (1845). Lehmann, Johann G.C. (ed.). Plantae preissianae sive enumeratio plantarum quas in australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali annis 1838-1841 collegit Ludovicus Preiss. Vol. 1(4). Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. pp. 541–542. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  7. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 301. ISBN 9780958034180.
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