''Grevillea glauca'', commonly known as bushman's clothes peg, cobblers peg tree, beefwood tree,
nut wood, nalgo, or kawoj in New Guinea,
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 native to
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
and north-eastern
Queensland
)
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, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
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, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
. It is an erect, spindly shrub or small tree with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and cylindrical clusters of cream-coloured to greenish-white flowers.
Description
''Grevillea glauca'' is an erect, spindly shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of or more. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide and covered on both sides with soft hairs. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in cylindrical groups long and are cream-coloured to greenish-white, 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 April to August and the fruit is a more or less spherical, glabrous
follicle long.
Taxonomy
''Grevillea glauca'' was first formally described in 1809 by
Joseph Knight in ''
'', from an unpublished description by
Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James ...
and
Daniel Solander
Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.
Biography
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of a plant discovered by Banks near the
Endeavour River
The Endeavour River ( Guugu Yimithirr: ''Wabalumbaal''), inclusive of the Endeavour River Right Branch, the Endeavour River South Branch, and the Endeavour River North Branch, is a river system located on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queen ...
.
Distribution and habitat
Bushman's clothes peg grows in a range of habitats including forest and woodland and occurs in Queensland from
Cape York to
Jericho
Jericho ( ; ar, أريحا ; he, יְרִיחוֹ ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Gove ...
and in
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
.
References
External links
Isolectotype of ''Grevillea glauca'' at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium
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glauca
Flora of Papua New Guinea
Flora of Queensland
Proteales of Australia
Plants described in 1809