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

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and is

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in Australia. It is a shrub with divided leaves with linear lobes or

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, linear leaves, and groups of red to orange-red or bright pink flowers.

Description

''Grevillea longistyla'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. Its leaves are long and either simple, or divided with two to six lobes, the leaves or lobes wide but not sharply-pointed. The edges of the leaves are turned down or rolled under. The flowers are arranged in sometimes branched groups on a rachis usually long and are red to orange-red or bright pink, the

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usually long. Flowering occurs in most months, peaking from August to November, and the fruit is an oblong follicle long with a rough surface.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea longistyla'' was first formally described in 1848 by

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in Thomas Mitchell's ''Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia''. The

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(''longistyla'') means "having a long style".

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea usually grows in woodland or forest and is found between

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, Gurulmundi and the Blackdown Tableland National Park in central and south-eastern Queensland.

Conservation status

''Grevillea longistyla'' is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government ''

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5607967 longistyla Flora of Queensland Proteales of Australia Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker Plants described in 1848