Grevillea irrasa
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| Grevillea irrasa | |
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| Subspecies didymochiton in the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Grevillea |
| Species: | G. irrasa |
| Binomial name | |
| Grevillea irrasa | |
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Grevillea irrasa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is an erect, spreading shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of red to apricot-coloured flowers.
Grevillea irrasa is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5–3 m (4 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) and has hairy branchlets. Its leaves are oblong to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 30–60 mm (1.2–2.4 in) long and 5–22 mm (0.20–0.87 in) wide, the edges rolled under and the lower surface with felty or shaggy hairs. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branches in clusters of six to sixteen on a rachis 8–20 mm (0.31–0.79 in) long and are red to apricot-coloured, the pistil 14–17 mm (0.55–0.67 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to January and the fruit is a glabrous oval to elliptic follicle 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in) long.[2][3]