Grevillea montana explained

Grevillea montana is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted to a small area of eastern New South Wales. It is a dense shrub with narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and bright green and pinkish-red flowers.

Description

Grevillea montana is a dense shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or more or less linear, mostly long and wide with the edges turned down or rolled under, often covering the silky-hairy lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly or in clusters of up to four on the ends of branches and are bright green at the base and pinkish-red near the ends with a green style, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs in September and October, and the fruit is an oval to elliptic follicle about long.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Grevillea montana was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[3] [4] The specific epithet (montana) means "pertaining to mountains".[5]

Distribution and habitat

The species is known from the southern Hunter Region of New South Wales, from Denman to Kurri Kurri, where it occurs in open forests in sandy soils.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Makinson . Robert O. . Grevillea montana . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 13 July 2022.
  2. Web site: Grevillea montana . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 13 July 2022.
  3. Web site: Grevillea montana. APNI. 13 July 2022.
  4. Brown . Robert . On the Proteaceae of Jussieu . Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . 1810 . 10 . 1 . 172 . 13 July 2022.
  5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 255 . 3rd.