''Grevillea erythroclada'', commonly called needle-leaf grevillea, 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

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 northern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with divided leaves, the ultimate lobes linear to more or less cylindrical, and clusters of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers.

Description

''Grevillea erythroclada'' is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of . It has divided leaves long with five to thirteen primary lobes, sometimes the lobes further divided. The ultimate lobes are linear to more or less cylindrical, long and wide. The leaves are more or less glabrous and deeply wrinkled. The flowers are arranged in clusters with up to eight branches, each branch cylindrical and long. The flowers are cream-coloured to pale yellow, 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. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is a flattened elliptic follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea erythroclada'' was first formally described in 1918 by William Vincent Fitzgerald in '' Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia'' from specimens he collected near the Upper Isdell and

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s. The

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(''erythroclada'') means "a red young shoot".

Distribution and habitat

Needle-leaf grevillea grows in open woodland, often near watercourses, in scattered locations in the Central Kimberley,

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in Queensland.

Conservation status

''Grevillea erythroclada'' is listed as

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on the

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, as well as under the ''

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'' and the Queensland Government ''

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.'' This species is widely distributed, common and its population is assumed to be stable. There are no known major threats to this species, either current or in the near future. It is also listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15579982 erythroclada Endemic flora of Western Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Taxa named by William Vincent Fitzgerald

Description

Taxonomy

Distribution and habitat

Conservation status

See also

References