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''Grevillea punctata'' 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 a restricted part of the
South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...
region of Western Australia. It is a shrub with oblong to elliptic leaves and scarlet flowers.


Description

''Grevillea punctata'' is an erect, open shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are oblong to elliptic, long and wide with the edges rolled under. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of short side branches in almost
sessile Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: * Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about * Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant * Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...
groups of two or three on a woolly-hairy rachis about long. The flowers are scarlet, 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 June to November and the fruit is an oval follicle long and wide.


Taxonomy

''Grevillea punctata'' was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Olde and Neil Marriott in ''The Grevillea Book'' from specimens collected by
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 ...
, east of
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in 1978. 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 ...
(''punctata'') means "dotted with small spots".


Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in low, open shrubland and is only known from near Jerdacuttup in the
Esperance Plains Esperance Plains, also known as Eyre Botanical District, is a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia on the south coast between the Avon Wheatbelt and Hampton bioregions, and bordered to the north by the Mallee region. It is a pl ...
bioregion of south-western
Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.


Conservation status

''Grevillea punctata'' is listed as " Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) is the Western Australian government The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state de ...
, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.


See also

* List of Grevillea species


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15580768 punctata Proteales of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1994