Grevillea candelabroides explained

Grevillea candelabroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with pinnately-divided leaves with linear lobes, and white or cream-coloured flowers.

Description

Grevillea candelabroides is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are pinnately divided, long, with seven to fourteen linear lobes long and wide with the edges rolled under. The lower surface of the leaves have two hairy grooves. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets in erect groups long, and are cream-coloured to white, the pistil long and glabrous. Flowering mostly occurs from August to January and the fruit is a glabrous, flattened oval follicle long.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Grevillea candelabroides was first formally described in 1964 by Charles Gardner in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia from specimens he collected near Ajana.[3] [4] The specific epithet (candelabroides) means "candlestick-like", referring to the arrangement of the flowers.[5]

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in heath or shrubland in sandy soil, from north of Kalbarri to near Coorow, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of Western Australia.

Conservation status

The species is listed as "not threatened" by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grevillea candelabroides . Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) . 13 February 2022.
  2. Web site: Grevillea candelabroides . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 13 February 2022.
  3. Web site: Grevillea candelabroides. APNI. 13 February 2022.
  4. Gardner . Charles A. . Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XIII . Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia . 1964 . 47 . 2 . 56 . 14 February 2022.
  5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 157 . 3rd.
  6. Olde, P. . Keighery, G. . 2020 . Grevillea candelabroides . 2020 . e.T112648768A113307771 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T112648768A113307771.en . 22 December 2023.