Grevillea zygoloba explained

Grevillea zygoloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with divided leaves, the lobes linear and more or less parallel, and clusters of creamy-white flowers.

Description

Grevillea zygoloba is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has erect, glaucous branchlets. Its leaves are long and divided with usually 3 to 7, more or less parallel lobes sometimes divided again, the end lobes linear, long and wide. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, usually concealing the lower surface apart from the mid-vein. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils and on the ends of branches in sometimes branched clusters, the end clusters cylindrical to conical on a rachis long, the flowers nearer the base of the rachis opening first. The flowers are creamy-white, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a sticky, pimply, elliptic follicle long.[1]

Taxonomy

Grevillea zygoloba was first described in 1994 by the botanists was first formally described by the botanists, Peter Olde and Neil Marriott in 1994 in the Grevillea Book from specimens collected by Olde near Bungalbin Hill near Southern Cross.[2] The specific epithet (zygoloba) means "joined-leaved", referring to the pinnate leaves.[3]

Distribution

This grevillea grows in woodland and scrubland on and among ironstone hills, in stony and loamy soils. It occurs between Koolyanobbing and the Die Hardy Range north of Southern Cross in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Nullarbor and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

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

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grevillea zygoloba . Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra . 25 April 2023.
  2. Web site: Grevillea zygoloba. APNI. 26 April 2023.
  3. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 343 . 3rd.