''Grevillea concinna'', commonly known as red combs or elegant grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with mostly linear to narrow wedge-shaped leaves sometimes with a sharp point on the tip. Flower colour varies with subspecies.

Description

''Grevillea concinna'' is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are usually narrowly wedge-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide. The leaves are sometimes divided with two or three linear lobes of the same dimensions as the simple leaves. The flowers are arranged in toothbrush-shaped groups on a rachis long, the

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long with a glabrous style. Flower colour varies with subspecies, being silvery to cream-coloured or yellowish green for subsp. ''concinna'' and lemonish-green, later orange-brown. The fruit is a hairy follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea concinna'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the '' Transactions of the Linnean Society of London''. The

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(''concinna'') means "neat, pretty or elegant". In 1986, Donald McGillivray described two subspecies in his book, ''New Names in '' (Proteaceae) and the names are accepted by the

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: * ''Grevillea concinna'' subsp. ''concinna'' McGill. has silvery to cream-coloured or yellowish-green flowers with a bright red to pink style; * ''Grevillea concinna'' R.Br. subsp. ''lemanniana'' has lemony-green flowers, later orange-brown, and a bright red style.

Distribution and habitat

Subspecies ''concinna'' grows in coastal shrubland between Cape Le Grand and Lucky Bay and subsp. ''lehmanniana'' grows in heath, scrub or shrubland between Boxwood Hill, Needilup,

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and

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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 concinna'' is listed as

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on the

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. Both subspecies of ''G. concinna'' are listed as "not threatened" by the

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2710372 concinna Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1810