Grevillea monslacana explained

Grevillea monslacana, commonly known as Lake Mountain grevillea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to mountainous areas of eastern Victoria in Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with narrowly egg-shaped leaves and clusters of pink to reddish pink flowers.

Description

Grevillea monslacana is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has densely woolly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes narrowly elliptic, mostly long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is usually glabrous, the lower surface silky-hairy, and the edges curved downwards. The flowers are arranged in sometimes branched clusters on a rachis long and are pink to reddish-pink, rarely white, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from October to April and the fruit is a faintly ridged follicle about long.[2] [3]

Taxonomy

Grevillea monslacana was first formally described in 2000 by Val Stajsic and Bill Molyneux in the Flora of Australia from specimens collected in the Rubicon State Forest in 1995.[4]

Distribution and habitat

Lake Mountain grevillea grows in wet forest and open woodland at altitudes between and occurs in the area north and north-east of Marysville.

Conservation status

Grevillea monslacana is listed as "critically endangered" in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988[5] and is listed as "rare in Victoria" on the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stajsic . Val . Grevillea monslacana . Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria . 12 July 2022.
  2. Web site: Grevillea monslacana . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 12 July 2022.
  3. Stajsic . Val . Molyneux . William M. . Taxonomic studies in the Grevillea victoriae F.Muell. species complex (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae) I. Descriptions of nine previously segregated, and three new taxa. . Muelleria . 2006 . 22 . 54–57 . 12 July 2022.
  4. Web site: Grevillea monslacana. APNI. 12 July 2022.
  5. Web site: Grevillea dimorpha. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria . 30 December 2023.
  6. Web site: Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria - 2014 . Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) . 26 . 12 July 2022.