''Grevillea pinifolia'', commonly known as the pine-leaved 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 a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, mounded shrub with linear, more or less cylindrical leaves and red to orange-red flowers.
Description
''Greville pinifolia'' is a low, mounded shrub that typically grows to a height of and has many branches. Its leaves are linear, more or less cylindrical, long and wide. The edges of the leaves are rolled under to the mid-vein with two longitudinal grooves either side. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to 4 in leaf axils, on a woolly-hairy
rachis long and are red to orange-red and shaggy- to silky-hairy, 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 July to October and the fruit is an oval
follicle about long.
Taxonomy
''Grevillea pinifolia'' was first formally described in 1856 by
Carl Meissner in
de Candolle's ''
Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis'' from specimens collected in the
Swan River Colony
The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. This initial settlement place on the Swan River was soon named Perth, and it ...
by
James Drummond.
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 ...
(''pinifolia'') means "pine-leaved".
Distribution and habitat
Pine-leaved grevillea grows in shrubland and is restricted to a small area between
Eneabba and
Bindi Bindi
Bindi Bindi is a small town located between Moora and Wongan Hills in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It has a population of 59 as of the 2021 census.
The town originated as a Western Australian Government Railways siding and wa ...
in the
Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
This grevillea is listed as "
Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,
meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.
See also
*
List of Grevillea species
References
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pinifolia
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Proteales of Australia
Taxa named by Carl Meissner
Plants described in 1856