Plants → Proteaceae → Grevillea
Grevillea endlicheriana Meisn.
Spindly Grevillea
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. 1:546-547 (1845)
Conservation Status:
Not threatened
Name Status:
Current
Brief Description
Grazyna Paczkowska,
Tuesday 8 August 1995
Shrub, (0.8–)1–3 m high. Fl. white, pink, red, Jul–Nov. Sand over granite, gravelly loam over laterite. Granite hills, laterite outcrops. Distribution: SW: AW, JF, SWA.
Scientific Description
Chris Hollister and Nicholas S. Lander,
Tuesday 8 April 2008
Habit and leaf form. Shrubs, 1–3 m high. Branchlets not glaucous. Leaves simple, 30–90 mm long overall. Leaf blade 3–4 mm wide, undissected, terete or flat, linear. Margins entire, flat. Hairs straight.
Inflorescence and floral features. Inflorescence axillary, or terminal; a raceme. Flowers cream or pink, very irregular. Pedicel 3–5 mm long. Perianth 4–5 mm long, glabrous, 4 -partite; lobes all joined. Stamens 4. Pistil 8–11 mm long, stipitate; stipe 1–1.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Styles glabrous, white or pink. Pollen presenter lateral, or oblique.
Fruit features. Fruit ellipsoidal, not viscid, 8 mm long.
Flowering Time. July, or August, or September, or October, or November.
Habitat. Amongst tall trees, or medium trees, or low trees; in gravelly soil, or sand, or clay.
Distribution. Western Australia. Western Australian Botanical Province(s): South-west; IBRA Bioregions SW: SWA, AW, and JF. Western Australian native; endemic to Western Australia.
Etymology. endlicheriana: Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–49), professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Vienna; author of Genera Plantarum (1836–1850) which contains many descriptions of Australian plants: Grevillea, Lomandra.
Descriptions were generated using DELTA format and DELTA software: Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993 onwards, 1995 onwards, 1998)
