Family: Proteaceae
Grevillea aquifolium
Citation:
Lindley in T.L. Mitchell, Three Exped. Int. eastern Austral. 2:178 (1838).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Prickly grevillea, variable prickly grevillea.
Description:
Procumbent to erect widely spreading shrub to 2 m high, branchlets with a persistent raised tomentum obscuring the 3 ribs decurrent from each leaf base; leaves rigid, petiolate; blade elliptic, 1.5-8 X 0.5-2.7 cm, undulate to (?outside S.Aust.) pinnatifid, with 6-22 rarely 3 spiny lobes, prominently veined, glabrous or pubescent above, tomentose with curved raised hairs below.
Racemes terminal, often on short axillary branches, unilateral, densely 18-32-flowered, with flower-subtending bracts more or less persistent to flowering, c. 1.5-4 mm long; rhachis, pedicel and perianth raised-tomentose, rhachis 1.5-3.5 cm long; flowers subsessile; toms slightly oblique; perianth 6-9.5 mm long, green, glabrous inside, splitting fully down one side only; limb recurved; gland horseshoe-shaped; ovary and stipe villous; style 19-30 mm long, glabrous, red, dilated above and below into an oblique, subpeltate concave pollen-presenter with a short central cone.
Fruit compressed, ellipsoid, 7-11 mm long, reflexed on the stipe, tomentose, with a glabrous persistent lateral style.
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Image source: fig. 69a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Image source: fig. 69a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 165.
Distribution:
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On calcareous sand in sclerophyllous woodland, and in heath on sands, limestone pavements and sandstone outcrops.
S.Aust.: MU, SL, SE. Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Nov. — March (Sept. — April in Grampians, Vic.).
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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