''Grevillea reptans'', also known as the Tin Can Bay 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 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 south-eastern Queensland. It is usually a prostrate shrub with long vine-like or arching branches, more or less linear leaves, and branched clusters of mauve-pink flowers.

Description

''Grevillea reptans'' is usually a prostrate to arching sub-shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has long, pliable, vine-like or arching branches. The leaves are more or less linear, long and wide with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in branched clusters on a

peduncle Peduncle may refer to: *Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed *Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body **Peduncle (art ...

long, each branch of the flowering clusters with 16 to 24 flowers on one side of the flowering rachis, the youngest flowers towards the ends of the rachis. The flowers are mauve-pink and woolly- to shaggy-hairy, the style becoming red as it ages, 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 November, and the fruit is a follicle long.

Taxonomy

''Grevillea reptans'' was first formally described in 2000 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 '' Flora of Australia'' from specimens collected in 1966 b
Clifford Gittins
near

Howard, Queensland Howard is a rural town and locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is a southern boundary of the Dundaburra peoples of the Northern Kabi Kabi Isis districts and surrounds. In the , Howard had a population of 1,359 people. ...

in Queensland. 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 ...

(''reptans'') means "creeping" or "crawling".

Distribution and habitat

Tin Can Bay grevillea grows in shrubby woodland and heathy wallum in scattered places between

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and

Cooloola National Park Great Sandy National Park is a coastal national park in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography The park features untouched beaches, large sand dunes, heathlands, rainforests, swamps, creeks, freshwater lakes and mangrove fores ...

, north of

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in south-eastern Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15580668 reptans Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Robert Owen Makinson Flora of Queensland Plants described in 2000