Grevillea erectiloba
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| Grevillea erectiloba | |
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| In Maranoa Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Grevillea |
| Species: | G. erectiloba |
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| Grevillea erectiloba | |
Grevillea erectiloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to inland areas of south-west of Western Australia. It is dense, rounded shrub with divided leaves with up to fifteen linear lobes, and groups of bright red flowers that are green in the bud stage.
Grevillea erectiloba is a dense, rounded shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in). Its leaves are 50–120 mm (2.0–4.7 in) long and deeply divided with five to fifteen erect, linear lobes 30–75 mm (1.2–3.0 in) long and 0.6–0.9 mm (0.024–0.035 in) wide with two longitudinal grooves near the edges. The flowers are arranged in groups of four to ten on a rachis 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) long and are bright green in the bud stage, turning red as the flowers open, the pistil 25.5–35 mm (1.00–1.38 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is an elliptic follicle 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long.[4][2]
Taxonomy
Grevillea erectiloba was first formally described in 1876 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, based on plant material collected between Mount Jackson and Ullaring by Jess Young.[5][6] The specific epithet (erectiloba) means "upright-lobed".[7]