Grevillea trifida explained

Grevillea trifida is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spiny, erect to low spreading shrub, usually with divided, variably-shaped leaves, and clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers.

Description

Grevillea trifida is a spiny, erect to low, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branchlets silky-hairy. The leaves are usually divided, long, sometimes linear to elliptic with 5 to 9 triangular teeth on the edges, or wedge-shaped with 3 to 5 lobes, the end lobes triangular to linear, long, wide. The leaf lobes are sharply pointed, and the edges of the leaves turned down to rolled under without concealing the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, in sometimes branched clusters, the clusters umbel-like on a woolly-hairy rachis long, the flowers nearer the tip of the rachis flowering first. The flowers are white to cream-coloured, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from July to November, and the fruit is an oval to elliptic follicle long.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Anadenia trifida in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[3] [4] In 1845, Carl Meissner transferred it to the genus Grevillea as G. trifida in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[5] [6]

The specific epithet (trifida) means "three-forked", referring to the leaves.[7]

Distribution and habitat

Grevillea trifida grows in sandy or gravelly soils in jarrah forest, shrubland and in swampy places. It is widespread from Cape Naturaliste to near the Stirling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grevillea trifida . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 27 March 2023.
  2. Book: Wrigley . John W. . Fagg . Murray A. . Banksias, waratahs & grevilleas : and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family . 1991 . Angus & Robertson . North Ryde, NSW, Australia . 0207172773 . 343.
  3. Web site: Anadenia trifida. APNI. 27 March 2023.
  4. Brown . Robert . On the Proteaceae of Jussieu. . Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . 1810 . 10 . 1 . 167 . 27 March 2023.
  5. Web site: Grevillea trifida. APNI. 27 March 2023.
  6. Book: Meissner . Carl . Lehmann . Johann J.G. . Plantae Preissianae . 1845 . Sumptibus Meissneri . Hamburg . 1 . 553 . 27 March 2023.
  7. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 327 . 3rd.