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

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and is

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to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with soft foliage, divided leaves with narrow linear lobes, and clusters of pink to bright red and white flowers.

Description

''Grevillea fililoba'' is a spreading shrub, typically up to about high and wide with soft, dense foliage. The leaves are long and divided, the lobes narrowly linear, sometimes curved, long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous, the edges rolled under obscuring most of the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in groups of twelve to thirty along a rachis long and are pink to bright red with a pink, green-tipped style, 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 July to September and the fruit is a triangular follicle about long.

Taxonomy

This grevillea was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray who gave it the name ''Grevillea thelemanniana'' subsp. ''fililoba'' in his ''New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae)'' from specimens collected by Robert Royce in 1986. In 1994,

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and

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raised the subspecies to species level as ''Grevillea fililoba'' in ''The Grevillea Book''. 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 ...

(''fililoba'') means "thread-lobed".

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in a range of habitats and is found east of Geraldton in the catchments of the Greenough and Irwin Rivers in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Grevillea fililoba'' is listed as " Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia

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, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.

Use in horticulture

This grevillea is well-known in cultivation, often by the

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names ''Grevillea'' 'Ellendale' or 'Ellendale Pool'. It is readily grown from seed or cuttings and grows best in well-drained soil in full sun, but is often short-lived in humid areas of eastern Australia.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2712475 fililoba Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Plants described in 1986 Taxa named by Donald McGillivray