''Grevillea bipinnatifida'', commonly known as fuchsia grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is

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to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub, usually with bipinnatifid leaves and loose clusters of dull pink to crimson flowers.

Description

''Grevillea bipinnatifida'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are usually bipinnatifid, long with six to eighteen lobes, the end lobes usually triangular, long and wide and sharply pointed. The flowers are arranged along a

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long and are dull pink to crimson, sometimes pale green or pale orange and the pistil is long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to December and the fruit is a woolly-hairy follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea bipinnatifida'' was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in '' Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae'' from specimens collected by Charles Fraser near the Swan River in 1827. The specific epithet (''bipinnatifida'') means "bipinnatifid", referring to the leaves that are

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, the parts themselves pinnatifid. In 2004, Raymond Cranfield described two subspecies in the journal ''

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'', and the names are accepted by the

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: * ''Grevillea bipinnatifida'' R.Br. subsp. ''bipinnatifida'' has primary leaf lobes wide; * ''Grevillea bipinnatifida'' subsp. ''pagna'' Cranfield has primary leaf lobes wide.

Distribution and habitat

Fuchsia grevillea grows in heath, open forest and woodland between Mogumber and

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, mainly on the

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in the

Avon Wheatbelt The Avon Wheatbelt is a bioregion in Western Australia. It has an area of . It is considered part of the larger Southwest Australia savanna ecoregion. Geography The Avon Wheatbelt bioregion is mostly a gently undulating landscape with low reli ...

Jarrah Forest Jarrah forest is tall open forest in which the dominant overstory tree is ''Eucalyptus marginata'' (jarrah). The ecosystem occurs only in the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia. It is most common in the biogeographic region named i ...

and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Subspecies ''pagna'' is only known from near Waroona where it grows in shrubland.

Cultivars

Hybrid cultivars have been produced which have ''Grevillea bipinnatifida'' as a parent species. These include hybrids with ''

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'' such as: *''G''.'Coconut Ice' *''G''. 'Claire Dee' * ''G''. 'Peaches and Cream' * ''G.'' 'Robyn Gordon' * ''G.'' 'Superb' Other hybrids include: * ''G.'' 'Molly' (a cross with ''G. aurea'') * ''G.'' 'Sunrise' (a cross with ''G.'' 'Clearview Robin')

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2710282 bipinnatifida Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Garden plants of Australia