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Grevillea Calcicola
''Grevillea calcicola'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is a much-branched shrub with Pinnation#Depth_of_divisions, pinnatisect leaves with linear lobes, and off-white to cream-coloured flowers. Description ''Grevillea calcicola'' is a much-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are pinnatisect, long with two to seven linear lobes wide with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged in groups long on the ends of branchlets, and are off-white to creamy-white, the Gynoecium#Pistils, pistil long. Flowering occurs from May to August and the fruit is a wikt:glabrous, glabrous Follicle (fruit), follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea calcicola'' was first formally described in 1968 by Alex George (botanist), Alex George in the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia'' from specimens he collected in the Cape Range National Park in 1961. The Binomial nomenclature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known genera include ''Protea'', ''Banksia'', ''Embothrium'', ''Grevillea'', ''Hakea'' and ''Macadamia''. Species such as the New South Wales waratah (''Telopea speciosissima''), king protea (''Protea cynaroides''), and various species of ''Banksia'', ''soman'', and ''Leucadendron'' are popular cut flowers. The nuts of ''Macadamia integrifolia'' are widely grown commercially and consumed, as are those of Gevuina avellana on a smaller scale. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity. Etymology The name Proteaceae was adapted by Robert Brown from the name Proteae coined in 1789 for the family by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, based on the genus ''Protea'', which in 1767 Carl Linnaeus derived from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
