''Grevillea beadleana'', commonly known as Beadle's grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is

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to New South Wales. It is a shrub with dissected leaves and grey to purplish flowers with a burgundy to scarlet

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Description

''Grevillea beadleana'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are mostly pinnatipartite, long and wide in outline, the ultimate lobes triangular and wide at the base. The lower surface of the leaves is densely covered with curled hairs. The flowers are arranged in one-sided racemes in groups of twenty to ninety on the ends of branches, the

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long. The flowers are grey to purplish with a burgundy to scarlet style, the pistil long. There are prominent bracts long at the base of the flowers, but that are lost as the flowers open. Flowering mainly occurs in late spring and summer and the fruit is a woolly-hairy follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea beadleana'' was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book ''New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae)'', based on specimens collected in 1982 by J.B. Williams near Chaelundi Falls in

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. The specific epithet (''beadleana'') honours Noel Beadle.

Distribution and habitat

Beadle's grevillea grows in forest and woodland in shallow soil over granite, and occurs in four known populations. Most plants occur north of Torrington, the remainder in the

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, the

and in the

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catchment. The species was first collected near Walcha in 1887, but it has not been seen in that area despite extensive searches.

Conservation status

''Grevillea beadleana'' is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government ''

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'' and the New South Wales Government '' Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995''. The main threats to the species include inappropriate fire regimes, grazing by native animals and by livestock, and illegal collection.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5607878 beadleana Flora of New South Wales Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Donald McGillivray Plants described in 1986