''Grevillea dryandri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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to northern Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with divided leaves with up to seventy or more linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and long clusters of red, orange-red, pink or white flowers.

Description

''Grevillea dryandri'' is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . It has divided leaves long with mostly ten to sixty linear to narrowly lance-shaped lobes long and wide with the edges turned down or rolled under. The lower surface of the leaflets is silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in clusters, the rachis long, each flower on a

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long. The flowers are red, orange-red, pink or white, the

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long. Flowering time depends on subspecies and the fruit is a thin-walled follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea dryandri'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the '' Transactions of the Linnean Society of London'' from specimens collected in

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. The

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(''dryandri'') honours

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. In 1986, Donald McGillivray described two subspecies of ''G. dryandri'' and the names are accepted by the

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: * ''Grevillea dryandri'' subsp. ''dasycarpa'' McGill. differs from the autonym in having leaves with fourteen to thirty pairs of thread-like lobes up to long and wide, pink to bright red flowers with a darker style from March to July, and fruit that is sticky with glandular hairs; * ''Grevillea dryandri'' R.Br. subsp. ''dryandri'' has leaves with 6 to 32 linear lobes long, wide and usually not paired, red, sometimes cream-coloured to white flowers with a red or paler style mostly from January to May, and fruit that is sticky but glabrous;

Distribution and habitat

Subspecies ''dasycarpa'' grows in shrubby woodland on sandstone between Mataranka, Daly River and the Gove Peninsula in the northern part of the Northern Territory. Subspecies ''dryandri'' grows in open woodland or open shrubland, often in rocky places, from the

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region of Western Australia, to the Northern Territory north of about

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and to northern parts of Queensland, mainly as far as Mount Isa and Normanton.

Conservation status

Both subspecies of ''G. dryandri'' are listed as of "least concern" under the Northern Territory Government ''

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''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q15580182, from2=Q100453148, from3=66104355 dryandri Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of Queensland Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Plants described in 1810 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)