''Grevillea byrnesii'' 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

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to north-western Australia. It is a shrub with broadly egg-shaped leaves and orange flowers.

Description

''Grevillea byrnesii'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are broadly egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with up to seven coarse teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in loose cone-shaped or cylindrical groups in leaf axils or at the ends of branchlets, the

rachis In biology, a rachis (from the grc, ῥάχις [], "backbone, spine") is a main axis or "shaft". In zoology and microbiology In vertebrates, ''rachis'' can refer to the series of articulated vertebrae, which encase the spinal cord. In this c ...

long, each flower on a downturned

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long. The flowers are 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'' ...

is long and the

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has a yellow tip. Flowering occurs from May to August and the fruit is a

glabrous Glabrousness (from the Latin ''glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...

follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea byrnesii'' was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book ''New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae)'', based on specimens he collected in 1978. The

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(''byrnesii'') honours Norman Byrnes.

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in shrubland and open woodland on ridge tops and sand dunes in the East Kimberley and

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regions of northern Western Australia, and in the Victoria River district of the Northern Territory.

Conservation status

''Grevillea byrnesii'' is 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 ...

" on the

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and under the Northern Territory Government '' Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.'' It is also listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5607891 byrnesii Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Donald McGillivray Plants described in 1986 Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of Western Australia