''Grevillea monslacana'', commonly known as Lake Mountain 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 mountainous areas of eastern Victoria in Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with narrowly egg-shaped leaves and clusters of pink to reddish pink flowers.

Description

''Grevillea monslacana'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has densely woolly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes narrowly elliptic, mostly long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is usually glabrous, the lower surface silky-hairy, and the edges curved downwards. The flowers are arranged in sometimes branched clusters on a rachis long and are pink to reddish-pink, rarely 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. Flowering occurs from October to April and the fruit is a faintly ridged follicle about long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea monslacana'' was first formally described in 2000 by Val Stajsic and

Bill Molyneux William Mitchell Molyneux (born 1935) is an Australian horticulturist and author who has researched and developed many popular cultivars of Australian plants, including Banksia 'Birthday Candles', and Isopogon 'Woorikee 2000'. '' Grevillea mo ...

in the '' Flora of Australia'' from specimens collected in the Rubicon State Forest in 1995.

Distribution and habitat

Lake Mountain grevillea grows in wet forest and open woodland at altitudes between and occurs in the area north and north-east of Marysville.

Conservation status

''Grevillea monslacana'' is listed as "critically endangered" in Victoria under the ''

Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 The ''Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988'', also known as the ''FFG Act'', is an act of the Victorian Government designed to protect species, genetic material and habitats, to prevent extinction and allow maximum genetic diversity within the Au ...

'' and is listed as "rare in Victoria" on the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment's ''Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5607977 monslacana Flora of Victoria (state) Proteales of Australia Plants described in 2000