Grevillea floribunda

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:               Seven Dwarfs Grevillea 

Conservation status:   Least concern

• Listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

• It is an extremely widespread and common species with a stable overall population and no known major threats

• Minor, localised threats include inappropriate fire regimes and land clearing for agriculture

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

• The specific epithet means "profusely flowering"

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged in groups of six to twenty, usually at the end of branches

• The perianth is greenish and covered with woolly, rusty-brown hairs and the pistil is 9.0–19.5 mm long

• The ovary is sessile and the style is reddish

• Flowering occurs in all months with a peak in spring 

Fruit:                         

• The fruit is a hairy follicle 10.5–17 mm long

Leaves:         

• Oblong to egg-shaped, mostly 20–80 mm long and 2–20 mm wide 

• Softly-hairy on the lower surface

Stem & branches:    

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–1.8 m

Habitat:   

•  Forest and woodland 

Distribution:                  

• It is widespread on the tablelands and western slopes of NSW and in south-eastern Queensland

• There is a single doubtful record from the Killawarra Forest in Victoria

• Subspecies tenella is restricted to the Darling Downs region of Queensland

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Grevillea floribunda is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia

  • It was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in his Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae

  • In 1994, Peter M. Olde and N R. Marriott described two subspecies (accepted by the Australian Plant Census):

    • Grevillea floribunda subsp. floribunda

    • Grevillea floribunda subsp. tenella

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea_floribunda (2023)