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

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and is

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to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with somewhat silky-hairy branchlets, broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or almost round leaves, and hairy, crimson and pink flowers with a red style.

Description

''Grevillea oxyantha'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has silky-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or almost round, long and wide, the lower surface covered with woolly or silky hairs. The flowers are arranged in more or less cylindrical clusters on a rachis long. The flowers are scarlet to crimson and woolly- or silky-hairy on the outside, pink inside, 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 mainly occurs from August to December and the fruit is a glabrous, oval to elliptic follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea oxyantha'' was first formally described in 1997 by

Robert Owen Makinson Robert Owen Makinson (born 1956) is an Australian botanist. He has published some 65 botanical names. See also Taxa named by Robert Owen Makinson. He studied at Macquarie University, was ABLO at Kew in 1995–1996 (replacing Barry Conn Bar ...

in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens collected b
R.D. Hoogland
near Mount Franklin in 1961. The

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(''oxyantha'') means "sharp-flowered", referring to the shape of part of the flower bud. In the same edition of the journal ''Telopea'', Makinson described two subspecies of ''G. oxyantha'' and the names are accepted by the

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: * ''Grevillea oxyantha'' subsp. ''ecarinata'' Makinson has egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, the lower surface with straight, silky hairs. * ''Grevillea oxyantha'' Makinson subsp. ''oxyantha'' has broadly egg-shaped to elliptic or more or less round leaves, the lower surface with woolly, curved to wavy hairs.

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea usually grows in rocky places in forest, often near peaks or cliffs, and is found from near

Wee Jasper Wee Jasper is a hamlet in the Goodradigbee River, Goodradigbee valley at the western foot of the Brindabella Ranges, near Burrinjuck Dam in New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Council, Yass Valley Shire. It is located about 90 km nort ...

to near Tumut,

Batlow Batlow is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia, on the edge of the Great Dividing Range, 775 m above sea level. Batlow is well known for its apples. About 50 growers in the district supply 1.6 million cas ...

and Brown Mountain. Subspecies ''oxyantha'' is mostly found in the Brindabella,

Tinderry Tinderry is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia. It lies to the east of Michelago and South West of Captains Flat Captains Flat is a town in the Southern Tablelands of rural New South Wales, Australia, in Que ...

and Kybean Ranges, and south to Brown Mountain in south-eastern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. There are also records from Taradale in central Victoria. Subspecies ''ecarinata'' occurs from near Wee Jasper to Tumut and Batlow.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q5607984, from2=Q66104407, from3=Q100453214 oxyantha Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of the Australian Capital Territory Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Robert Owen Makinson Plants described in 1997