Grevillea leptobotrys

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:               Tangled Grevillea 

Conservation status:   Not threatened (WA)

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 (leptobotrys) means "a slender bunch of grapes"

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches

• Sometimes branched clusters on a rachis 30–50 mm long 

• Pale to deep lilac-pink

• The pistil 4–6 mm long

• Flowering mainly occurs from October to December, but flowers are present in most months

Fruit:                         

• Oval to club-shaped

• Red follicle 9–14 mm long

Leaves:         

• The leaves are variably-shaped, 30–290 mm long

• Sometimes simple and toothed, otherwise divided with seven to fifteen lobes; sometimes further divided

• End lobes triangular to egg-shaped, oblong or more or less linear, 2–35 mm long and 1–5 mm) wide

Stem & branches:    

•  Its branchlets sometimes silky- or woolly-hairy

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–40 cm 

Habitat:   

• Woodland and shrubby forest 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to the southwest of WA

• Between Cranbrook, Brookton, North Bannister and Shannon in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Grevillea leptobotrys was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae 

  • Specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony 

Sources of information:

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