''Grevillea pectinata'', commonly known as comb-leaf 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 to the south of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with divided, comb-like leaves and mauve-pink to red and cream-coloured to yellow flowers with a red to deep pink style.

Description

''Grevillea pectinata'' is spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and sometimes forms a lignotuber. Its leaves are long, wide and oblong to egg-shaped in outline, pinnatipartite to pinnatisect with 8 to 24 lobes sharply-pointed, linear lobes long and wide, the lobes sometimes almost touching. The edges of the lobes are more or less rolled under, enclosing most of the lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly or in clusters of up to 10 flowers on a rachis long, 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. The flowers are mauve-pink to red and cream-coloured to yellow, the style red to deep pink. Flowering occurs from June to January and the fruit is an erect, glabrous follicle long with prominent horns or ridges.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea pectinata'' was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1830 in ''

Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae ''Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae'' ("First supplement to the Prodromus of the flora of New Holland") is an 1830 supplement to Robert Brown's ''Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. It may be referred to ...

''. 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 ...

(''pectinata'') means "in the form of a comb", referring to the leaves.

Distribution and habitat

Comb-leaf grevillea grows in mallee scrub, heath or low woodland in near-coastal areas of southern Western Australia from the

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to near Esperance and inland as far as Kulin and

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in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions.

Conservation status

This grevillea is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5607994 pectinata Endemic flora of Western Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1830