Grevillea brachystachya
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| Short-spiked grevillea | |
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| Grevillea brachystachya near Mingenew | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Grevillea |
| Species: | G. brachystachya |
| Binomial name | |
| Grevillea brachystachya | |
Grevillea brachystachya, commonly known as short-spiked grevillea,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub with linear leaves and more or less spherical clusters of cream-coloured to greenish flowers.
Grevillea brachystachya is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.6 to 2 metres (2 to 7 ft) and usually has silky-hairy branchlets. The leaves are linear, 20–150 mm (0.79–5.91 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide with two longitudinal grooves on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in more or less spherical groups on a rachis 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long, and are cream-coloured to greenish-cream. The pistil is 12–17 mm (0.47–0.67 in) long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a glabrous, oval follicle 17–21 mm (0.67–0.83 in) long.[3][4]
Taxonomy
Grevillea brachystachya was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.[5][6] The specific epithet (brachystachya) means "short flower spike".[7]