''Grevillea aneura'', commonly known as Red Lake grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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 Pro ...

and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Western Australia. It is a dense, prickly shrub with sharply-pointed, deeply divided leaves and light yellow to reddish flowers.

Description

''Grevillea aneura'' is a dense shrub that typically grows to a height of . It has sharply-pointed leaves long that are divided to the mid-rib into two or three lobes, the lobes sometimes further divided, the end lobes linear to more or less cylindrical, long and wide. The flowers are arranged along an erect rachis long, and are light yellow to red or reddish-orange, the

pistil Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ''pistils'' ...

long with a light orange to bright red style with a greenish tip. Flowering mostly occurs from August to January and the fruit is a follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea aneura'' was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book ''New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae)''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''aneura'') means "without nerves", referring to the phyllodes.

Distribution and habitat

Red Lake grevillea grows in heath and mallee scrub between

Lake King Lake King is a town in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, from Perth along State Route 40 between Kelmscott and Ravensthorpe. As of 2016, the town had a population of 95. The 2011 census recorded both the population of the tow ...

and south of Salmon Gums in the

Esperance Plains Esperance Plains, also known as Eyre Botanical District, is a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia on the south coast between the Avon Wheatbelt and Hampton bioregions, and bordered to the north by the Mallee region. It is a pl ...

and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Grevillea aneura'' is classified as " Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) is the Western Australian government The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state de ...

, meaning that is rare or near threatened. It is also listed as

Least Concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

by the

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. Although it has a limited distribution, it has been observed to be common and has a stable population. There are currently no major threats to the species.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5607872 aneura Proteales of Australia Flora of Western Australia Taxa named by Donald McGillivray Plants described in 1986