Grevillea quercifolia explained

Grevillea quercifolia, commonly known as the oak-leaf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the protea family and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a straggly to sprawling shrub usually with pinnatifid or serrated leaves, and oval to cylindrical clusters of pale to deep pink flowers.

Description

Grevillea quercifolia is a straggly to sprawling shrub that typically grows to up to high and wide. Its leaves are usually pinnatifid to more or less serrated, glabrous, oblong to narrowly egg-shaped, mostly long and wide, with about 5 to 15 triangular to oblong lobes long and wide. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branches in oval to cylindrical clusters on a rachis long, and are pale to deep pink, the pistil long. The fruit is an oval to elliptic follicle long.[1]

Taxonomy

Grevillea quercifolia was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in his Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae.[2] [3] The specific epithet (quercifolia) means "oak-leaved".[4]

Distribution and habitat

Oak-leaved grevillea is widespread in the south-west of Western Australia, where it grows in heathland, shrubland or woodland from a little north of Perth to Augusta and east to Mount Barker and Albany in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

This grevillea is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grevillea quercifolia . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 12 October 2022.
  2. Web site: Grevillea quercifolia. APNI. 13 October 2020.
  3. Book: Brown . Robert . Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae . 1830 . London . 23 . 12 October 2022.
  4. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 290 . 3rd.