Grevillea prasina explained

Grevillea prasina is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a spreading or straggly shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with coarsely-toothed edges, and dense, cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers, the style pale green to white.

Description

Grevillea prasina is a spreading or straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are egg-shaped or elliptic in outline, long and wide with 5 to 11 evenly-spaced teeth on the edges, both surfaces more or less glabrous and bright yellowish-green. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches or in leaf axils in dense, sometimes branched clusters, each cluster oval to short-cylindrical on a rachis long. The flowers are fragrant, cream-coloured at first, later pale yellow and the style is green to white with a green tip, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is glabrous, elliptic follicle long.[1]

Taxonomy

Grevillea prasina was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae) from specimens collected by Rayden Alfred Perryon " W/N.W. of Wave Hill Police Station" in 1949.[2] The specific epithet (prasina) means "leek green".[3]

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in open woodland or shrubland between the Pentecost River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Port Keats in the Northern Territory, with a few scattered populations as far east as the Gulf of Carpentaria.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grevillea prasina . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 28 August 2022.
  2. Web site: Grevillea prasina. APNI. 28 August 2022.
  3. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 3rd. 283.
  4. Web site: Grevillea prasina . Northern Territory Government . 28 August 2022.