Plants → Proteaceae → Grevillea
Grevillea preissii Meisn.
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. 1:543 (1845)
Conservation Status:
Not threatened
Name Status:
Current
Brief Description
Amanda Spooner,
Tuesday 21 September 1999
Shrub, 0.15–1.7 m high. Fl. red, Jun–Sep. White, grey or yellow sand, sandy clay, limestone. Ridges & outcrops, seasonally wet areas. Distribution: SW: GS, JF, SWA.
Scientific Description
Chris Hollister and Nicholas S. Lander,
Tuesday 8 April 2008
Habit and leaf form. Shrubs, 0.5–1.5 m high. Branchlets not glaucous. Leaves simple, 20–45 mm long overall. Leaf blade dissected, subpinnatisect, not further divided. Leaf lobes 5–20 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide. Margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming two grooves with the midvein. Hairs straight.
Inflorescence and floral features. Inflorescence axillary, or terminal; a raceme. Flowers orange or red, very irregular. Pedicel 2–3 mm long. Perianth 6–9 mm long, glabrous or simple-hairy, 4 -partite; lobes all free. Stamens 4. Pistil 15–24 mm long, stipitate; stipe 3–4 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Styles glabrous, orange or red. Pollen presenter oblique.
Fruit features. Fruit ribbed or ridged, oblong, glabrous, 15 mm long.
Flowering Time. May, or June, or July, or August, or September, or October.
Habitat. Amongst medium trees, or low trees, or tall (sclerophyll) shrubland, or low (sclerophyll) shrubland; in rocky or stony soil, or sand.
Distribution. Western Australia. Western Australian Botanical Province(s): South-west; IBRA Bioregions SW: GS, SWA, and JF. Western Australian native; endemic to Western Australia.
Comments.
subsp. preissii: Perianth hairy; leaves and branchlets not villous
subsp. glabrilimba: Perianth glabrous; leaves and branchlets villous
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Etymology. preissi subsp. preissii: The specific epithet honours J.A.Ludwig Preiss (1811–1883), one of the best of the early collectors of Australian plants.
Descriptions were generated using DELTA format and DELTA software: Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993 onwards, 1995 onwards, 1998)
