Grevillea quadricauda
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| Grevillea quadricauda | |
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| In the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Grevillea |
| Species: | G. quadricauda |
| Binomial name | |
| Grevillea quadricauda | |
Grevillea quadricauda, commonly known as four-tailed grevillea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, dense, bushy shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and small, loose clusters of green and pinkish-red flowers.
Grevillea quadricauda is an erect, dense, bushy shrub that typically grows 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) high and wide and has purplish new growth. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base or oblong to elliptic, 13–18 mm (0.51–0.71 in) long and 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) wide, the upper surface with soft, shaggy hairs and the lower surface woolly-hairy. The flowers are arranged singly or in loose clusters of up to 4 on a woolly-hairy rachis 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. The flowers are pinkish-red with a green base and style, the pistil 25–27 mm (0.98–1.06 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from July to November and the fruit is an oval to oblong follicle 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in) long.[2][3][4][5][6]
Taxonomy
Grevillea quadricauda was first formally described in 1994 by Peter Olde and Neil Marriott in the journal Telopea from specimens collected in 1992.[3][7] The specific epithet (quadricauda) refers to four tail-like appendages on the flowers.[3]