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

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and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the northern part of the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

. It is a spreading shrub with divided leaves with nine to seventeen spreading lobes, and pale cream-coloured to white flowers.

Description

''Grevillea dunlopii'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are long and divided with nine to seventeen spreading linear to narrowly elliptic lobes long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is covered with woolly hairs but the lower surface is mostly obscured. The flowers are arranged in groups at the ends of branchlets on a rachis long, pale cream-coloured to white, 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'' ...

long and hairy. Flowering occurs from December to May and the fruit is a hairy follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea dunlopii'' was first formally described in 2000 by

Robert Owen Makinson Robert Owen Makinson (born 1956) is an Australian botanist. He has published some 65 botanical names. See also Taxa named by Robert Owen Makinson. He studied at Macquarie University, was ABLO at Kew in 1995–1996 (replacing Barry Conn Bar ...

in the '' Flora of Australia'', based on plant material collected near Mount Gilruth in 1978. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''dunlopii'') honour
Clyde Dunlop
who collected the

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specimens and was curator of the Northern Territory Herbarium.

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows on sandstone escarpments, often near watercourse or in shallow sand in Kakadu National Park and western

Arnhem Land Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia, with the term still in use. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territory capital, Darwin. In 1623, Dutch East India Compan ...

Conservation status

Although the species is locally uncommon and has a restricted distribution, ''Grevillea dunlopii'' 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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, as it is presumed to have a stable population and faces no major threats, either at present or in the near future.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15693951 dunlopii Proteales of Australia Endemic flora of Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Plants described in 2000 Taxa named by Robert Owen Makinson