Grevillea bronweniae explained

Grevillea bronweniae 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 usually with more or less linear leaves, and wheel-like clusters of crimson flowers.

Description

Grevillea bronweniae is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of1to. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic with the narrower end towards the base, 10to long and 2to wide with the edges curved down or rolled under. The flowers are arranged in wheel-like clusters in leaf axils and at the ends of stems, on a rachis long, and are scarlet. The pistil is long and hairy. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a woolly-hairy, narrow oval follicle about long.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Grevillea bronweniae was first formally described by botanist Gregory John Keighery in Nuytsia in 1990.[3] The specific epithet (bronweniae) honours Keighery's wife and botanist, Bronwen Keighery.

The FloraBase of the Western Australian Herbarium gives this taxon the name Grevillea bronwenae.

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in low woodland between Nannup and Busselton in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

Grevillea bronweniae is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grevillea bronwenae . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 29 January 2022.
  2. Keighery . Gregory J. . Taxonomy of the Grevillea brachystylis species complex (Proteaceae) . Nuytsia . 1990 . 7 . 2 . 128–131 . 29 October 2021.
  3. Web site: Grevillea bronweniae. APNI. 29 October 2021.
  4. Web site: Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna. Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. 29 January 2022.