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

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and is

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to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves and pinkish-red to red flowers, the style with a yellowish tip.

Description

''Grevillea pinaster'' is usually an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of , sometimes a low, spreading shrub wide. Its leaves are linear, long and wide, sometimes with 2 to 5 linear lobes long. The upper surface is glabrous, the edges turned down or rolled under obscuring the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in clusters of 12 to 20 on a rachis long and are pinkish-red to red and mostly glabrous, the

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long. The end of the style is yellowish. Flowering mainly occurs from May to September and the fruit is an oblong to elliptic follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea pinaster'' was first formally described by Carl Meissner in ''

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'' in 1855, from material collected by James Drummond. The

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(''pinaster'') means "imitation pine".

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in shrubland and heath, often near creeks, and mainly occurs between the Murchison River, Eneabba and Mullewa in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and

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bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Grevillea pinaster'' is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia

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. Plants labelled as ''

Grevillea stenomera ''Grevillea stenomera'', commonly known as lace net grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas in the west of Western Australia. It is a rounded, glaucous shrub with pinnatisect leave ...

'' in plant nurseries are often forms or hybrids of this species.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5608000 pinaster Endemic flora of Western Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Carl Meissner Plants described in 1855