Grevillea juncifolia
Honeysuckle Grevillea
Honeysuckle Grevillea
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Common name: Honeysuckle Grevillea
Also, honey grevillea, honeysuckle spider flower
Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory give this grevillea many names including tharrkarr (Alyawarre), rrwerleng (Anmatyerre), irrwerlenge (Eastern Arrernte), tharrkarre (Kaytetye), ultukunpa (Pintupi Luritja), ultukunpa (Pitjantjatjara), jiriwuru (Warumungu) and walunarri (Warlpiri)
Conservation status: . . .
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 (juncifolia) means "rush-leaved"
Flowers:
The flowers are arranged in branched clusters of fifteen to fifty on a rachis 50–170 mm long and are bright yellow, sometimes orange
The pistil 18–27 mm long
Flowering occurs in most months, with a peak from June to November
Fruit:
and the fruit is a hairy follicle 15–29 mm (0.59–1.14 in) long
Leaves:
Its leaves are linear, 100–300 mm gong and 1–2 mm wide, or divided with more or less parallel lobes 15–220 mm long
The edges of the leaves or lobes are rolled under with two parallel woolly-hairy grooves on the lower side
Stem & branches:
Has woolly-hairy branchlets
Roots:
Habit:
A bushy shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of 2–7 m
Habitat:
Open shrubland or woodland on sandplains, stony hills and open plains
Distribution:
Endemic to inland Australia
Occurs in all mainland states and in the Northern Territory, but not in Victoria or Tasmania
Subspecies temulenta is restricted to Western Australia
Additional notes:
Taxonomy and naming
It was first formally described in 1848 by English botanist William Jackson Hooker in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
In 2008, Peter M. Olde and Neil R. Marriott described two subspecies of G. juncifolia in The Grevillea Book, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
Grevillea juncifolia subsp. juncifolia - has leaves that are mostly or all with divided leaves
Grevillea juncifolia subsp. temulenta - has undivided, linear leaves
Uses
Indigenous Australians use this grevillea for food and medicine
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