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Grevillea

Grevillea

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Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Plant information

Examples at the ANBG:

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links: Angiosperms > Eudicots >Proteales > Proteaceae> Grevillea

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Plant information

Common name: Spider flowers

Etymology:
The genus was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville, an 18th-century patron of botany and co-founder of the Royal Horticultural Society

Flowers:

The flowers are zygomorphic and typically arranged in pairs along a sometimes branched raceme at the ends of branchlets. The flowers are bisexual, usually with four tepals in a single whorl. There are four stamens and the gynoecium has a single carpel

Fruit:

A thin-walled follicle that splits down only one side
Releasing one or two seeds before the next growing season

Leaves:

Simple or compound leaves arranged alternately along the branchlets

Habit:

Shrubs, rarely trees

Habitat:

Grevilleas grow in most habitats, although few grow in alpine areas, in swamps or saline soils

Distribution:

Most species are endemic to Australia
Three species grow in New Guinea, (G. papuana is endemic)
Three are endemic to New Caledonia
One species (G. elbertii) is endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia

Species:

World: ~ 360 (5 species are endemic to areas outside Australia)
Australia: > 350 endemic
Three (G. exul, G. gillivrayi, and G. meisneri) are endemic to New Caledonia
G. elbertii and G. papuana are endemic to Sulawesi and New Guinea respectively
Two other species, G. baileyana and G. glauca, occur in both New Guinea and Queensland

Additional notes:

Taxonomy
- The genus Grevillea was first formally described in 1809 by Joseph Knight from an unpublished manuscript by Robert Brown
- Knight gave the spelling Grevillia, corrected by Brown in 1810 to Grevillea in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
Ecology
- Grevilleas are good bird-attracting plants. Honeyeaters in particular are common visitors
- They are also used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the dryandra moth and Pieris rapae (small butterfly or cabbage white butterfly)
Uses
- Use in horticulture
  - Many species of grevilleas are popular garden plants, especially in Australia but also in other temperate and subtropical climates
  - Many grevilleas have a propensity to interbreed freely, and extensive hybridisation and selection of horticulturally desirable attributes has led to the commercial release of many named cultivars
  - Among the best known is 'Robyn Gordon', a small shrub up to 1.5 m high and wide which can flower 12 months of the year in subtropical climates
  - The cultivar 'Canberra Gem' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit
  - They can be grown from soft tip cuttings from December–March (in the Southern Hemisphere) or fresh seed
  - Many harder-to-grow species can be grafted onto hardy rootstock such as Grevillea robusta
  - There is an active Grevillea Study Group in the Australian Native Plants Society for people interested in grevilleas, both for uses in horticulture and for conservation in the wild
- Traditional Aboriginal use
  - Grevillea flowers were a traditional favourite among the Aboriginal Peoples for their sweet nectar
  - This could be shaken onto the hand to enjoy, or into a coolamon with a little water to make a sweet drink
  - They might be referred to as the original "bush lollies"
  - Drinking nectar direct from the flower is best avoided as some commonly cultivated grevillea species produce flowers containing toxic cyanide
- Colonial furniture
  - A grevillea wood veneer was used on a Pembroke table, a small table with two drawers and folding sides, made in the 1790s for Commissioner of the Royal Navy, Sir Andrew Snape Hamond
  - The timber from which the veneer was made, referred to as 'beef wood', was sent from Port Jackson by Surgeon-General John White, who arrived in the new penal colony of Australia with the First Fleet
  - This table is in the collection of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra

Sources of information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea (2023)

Species at ANBG: (182 taxa)

- - - Grevillea 'Bedspread'
    - Grevillea 'Bloodline'
    - Grevillea 'Bonfire'
    - Grevillea 'Boongala Spinebill'
    - Grevillea 'Bronze Rambler'
    - Grevillea 'Brookvale Letitia'
    - Grevillea 'Canberra Gem'
    - Grevillea 'Canterbury Gold'
    - Grevillea 'Coastal Glow'

- - - Grevillea 'Coconut Ice'
    - Grevillea 'Copper Rocket'
    - Grevillea 'Fireworks'
    - Grevillea 'Flame 'n Beauty'
    - Grevillea 'Forest Rambler'
    - Grevillea 'Goldfever'
    - Grevillea 'Hills Jubilee'
    - Grevillea 'Hunter Beauty
    - Grevillea "Ivanhoe'
    - Grevillea

- - - 'Jelly Baby
    - Grevillea 'Lady0'
    - Grevillea 'Lana Maree'
    - Grevillea 'Legacy Flame
    - Grevillea 'Little Jessie'
    - Grevillea 'Little Thicket'
    - Grevillea 'Loopy Lou'
    - Grevillea 'Marion'
    - Grevillea 'Mason's Hybrid'
    - Grevillea 'Merida Gordon'

- - - Grevillea 'Orange Marmalade'
    - Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream'
    - Grevillea 'Pick O'The Crop'
    - Grevillea 'Pink Lady
    - Grevillea 'Pink Midget'
    - Grevillea 'Poorinda Adorning'
    - Grevillea 'Poorinda Ben'
    - Grevillea 'Poorinda Constance'
    - Grevillea 'Poorinda Diadem'
    - Grevillea 'Poorinda Illumina'

- - - Grevillea 'Poorinda Peter'
    - Grevillea 'Poorinda Queen'
    - Grevillea 'Poorinda Royal Mantle'
    - Grevillea 'Raptor'
    - Grevillea 'Raspberry Red'
    - Grevillea 'Red Hooks'
    - Grevillea 'Red Wings'
    - Grevillea 'Robyn Gordon'
    - Grevillea 'Scarlet King'
    - Grevillea 'Scarlet Sprite'

- - - Grevillea 'Showtime'
    - Grevillea 'Sid Reynolds'
    - Grevillea 'Wakiti Gem'
    - Grevillea 'Wakiti Sunrise'
    - Grevillea 'Wendy Sunshine'
    - Grevillea 'White Wings'
    - Grevillea 'Winpara Gold'
    - Grevillea Winter Wonder'
    - Grevillea acanthifolia
    - Grevillea acanthifolia subsp. acanthifolia

- - - Grevillea acanthifolia subsp. paludosa
    - Grevillea acropogon
    - Grevillea acuaria
    - Grevillea albiflora
    - Grevillea alpina
    - Grevillea alpina 'Gold Touch'
    - Grevillea alpina 'Goldfields Pink'
    - Grevillea anethifolia
    - Grevillea aquifolium
    - Grevillea arenaria

- - - Grevillea arenaria X Grevillea lanigera
    - Grevillea arenaria subsp. arenaria
    - Grevillea arenaria subsp. canescens
    - Grevillea aspera
    - Grevillea aspleniifolia
    - Grevillea asteriscosa
    - Grevillea australis
    - Grevillea australis
    - 'Cara Lynn'
    - Grevillea baileyana

- - - Grevillea barklyana
    - Grevillea barklyana subsp. barklyana
    - Grevillea batrachioides
    - Grevillea baueri subsp. asperula
    - Grevillea beadleana
    - Grevillea bipinnatifida
    - Grevillea brevifolia
    - Grevillea brevifolia subsp. brevifolia
    - Grevillea buxifolia
    - Grevillea buxifolia subsp. buxifolia

:

- - - Grevillea buxifolia subsp. sphacelata
    - Grevillea caleyi
    - Grevillea capitellata
    - Grevillea centristigma
    - Grevillea coccinea x Grevillea rigida subsp. distans
    - Grevillea confertifolia
    - Grevillea corrugata
    - Grevillea curviloba sp incurva
    - Grevillea curviloba subsp. incurva
    - Grevillea dielsiana

- - - Grevillea diffusa
    - Grevillea diffusa subsp. diffusa
    - Grevillea diffusa subsp. filipendula
    - Grevillea diminuta
    - Grevillea dimorpha
    - Grevillea dryandroides
    - Grevillea halmaturina subsp. halmaturina
    - Grevillea hilliana
    - Grevillea hirtella
    - Grevillea hockingsii

- - - Grevillea hookeriana
    - Grevillea hookeriana sens. lat.
    - Grevillea hookeriana subsp. digitata
    - Grevillea humilis subsp. maritima
    - Grevillea hybrid
    - Grevillea iaspicula
    - Grevillea ilicifolia subsp. ilicifolia
    - Grevillea ilicifolia subsp. lobata
    - Grevillea ilicifolia subsp. lobata
    - Grevillea insignis subsp. insignis

- - - Grevillea involucrata
    - Grevillea irrasa subsp. didymochiton
    - Grevillea jephcottii
    - Grevillea johnsonii
    - Grevillea juncifolia
    - Grevillea juniperina
    - Grevillea juniperina 'Molonglo'
    - Grevillea juniperina 'Pink Lady
    - Grevillea juniperina X Grevillea mucronulata
    - Grevillea juniperina subsp. allojohnsonii

- - - Grevillea juniperina subsp. amphitricha
    - Grevillea juniperina subsp. fortis
    - Grevillea juniperina subsp. sulphurea
    - Grevillea juniperina subsp. villosa
    - Grevillea lanigera
    - Grevillea lanigera (prostrate form)
    - Grevillea lanigera f. Bittangabee
    - Grevillea laurifolia
    - Grevillea lavandulacea
    - Grevillea lavandulacea x baueri 'Raspberry Red'

- - - Grevillea leiophylla 'Pink Midget'
    - Grevillea leptobotrys 'Lilac tangles'
    - Grevillea linsmithii
    - Grevillea longistyla
    - Grevillea macleayana
    - Grevillea mangles subsp. manglesii
    - Grevillea manglesii subsp. ornithopoda
    - Grevillea maxwellii
    - Grevillea minutiflora
    - Grevillea mollis

- - - Grevillea molyneuxii
    - Grevillea monticola
    - Grevillea montis-cole subsp. brevistyla
    - Grevillea montis-cole subsp. montis-cole
    - Grevillea mucronulata
    - Grevillea mucronulatax Grevillea baueri
    - Grevillea newbeyi
    - Grevillea nudiflora
    - Grevillea obliquistigma subsp. funicularis
    - Grevillea obliquistigma subsp. obliquistigma

- - - Grevillea obliquistigma subsp. funicularis
    - Grevillea obtusiflora subsp. fecunda
    - Grevillea obtusiflora subsp. obtusiflora
    - Grevillea obtusifolia
    - Grevillea oleoides
    - Grevillea olivacea
    - Grevillea oxyantha
    - Grevillea oxyantha subsp. oxyantha
    - Grevillea paniculata
    - Grevillea parvula

- - - Grevillea patulifolia
    - Grevillea petrophiloides subsp. petrophiloides
    - Grevillea phillipsiana
    - Grevillea phylicoides
    - Grevillea plurijuga
    - Grevillea plurijuga subsp. plurijuga
    - Grevillea polybractea
    - Grevillea polybractea x Grevillea lanigera
    - Grevillea preissii subsp. preissii
    - Grevillea quinquenervis

- - - Grevillea x gaudichaudii
    - Grevillea zygoloba

Examples at the ANBG:

Grevillea barklyana

Grevillea diminuta

Grevillea Hookellara

Grevillea lanigera

Grevillea 'Ladyo'

Grevillea leptobotris

Tangled grevillea

Grevillea manglesii

Grevillea sp. 'Peaches and Cream'

Grevillia 'Poorinda Diadem'

Grevillia tripartita subsp. macrostylis

Grevillia rhyolitica

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