Grevillea muelleri explained

Grevillea muelleri is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the a relatively small area of south-western Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear to narrowly oblong, or divided leaves with linear or narrowly egg-shaped lobes, more or less spherical clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers.

Description

Grevillea muelleri is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has silky-hairy branchlets. Its adult leaves are long, linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly lance-shaped, sometimes with a few irregular teeth and wide, sometimes divided and wide. Leaves on flowering stems are usually narrower and shorter with fewer lobes. The flowers are white to cream-coloured, usually near the ends of branches, sometimes branched, in more or less spherical clusters long on a rachis, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruit is an egg-shaped to elliptic follicle long.[1]

Taxonomy

Grevillea muelleri was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by Ferdinand von Mueller at the summit of the Stirling Range.[2] [3] The specific epithet (muelleri) honours the collector of the type specimens.[4]

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in forest and tall shrubland and is mainly restricted to the Stirling Range National Park in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grevillea muelleri . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 16 July 2022.
  2. Web site: Grevillea muelleri. APNI. 16 July 2022.
  3. Book: Bentham . George . von Mueller . Ferdinand . Flora Australiensis . 5 . 1870 . Victorian Government Printer . Melbourne . 479 . 16 July 2022.
  4. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 3rd. 256.