''Grevillea exul'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
Proteacae
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 Prot ...
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endemic
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to
New Caledonia
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It grows up to 10 metres in height and has narrow lanceolate to elliptic leaves which have a blunt apex.
[ The flowers are usually white, followed by follicles which are long and in width.][ It is a ]manganese
Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy use ...
accumulator.[Jaffré, T. (1979) Accumulation du manganèse par les Protéacées de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Compte Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris 289, 425–428.]
References
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