Grevillea scabrida

Grevillea scabrida
Conservation status
Priority One — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Grevillea
Species:	G. scabrida
Binomial name
Grevillea scabrida C.A.Gardner

Grevillea scabrida is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the north eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.^[1]

Description[]

The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.6 to 1.5 metres (2.0 to 4.9 ft) and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple, flat, linear and undissected leaves with a blade that is 16 to 60 millimetres (0.63 to 2.36 in) long and 0.5 to 1.6 mm (0.02 to 0.06 in) wide. It blooms in July and produces an axillary or terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with green, white or yellow flowers and white or pink styles. Later it forms ribbed or ridges ellipsoidal simple hairy fruit that is 9 to 11.5 mm (0.4 to 0.5 in) long.^[1] It will regenerate from seed only. It is similar to Grevillea lissopleura but has districtive red angular branchlets.^[2]

Taxonomy[]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Charles Austin Gardner in 1936 as a part of the work Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis as published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia.^[3]

Distribution[]

Grevillea scabrida is found amongst the tall to low trees in scrubland and will grow in gravelly, loamy or clay soils. It is also found on ironstone plains preferring winter wet areas.^[1] The plant is only found Mount Singleton to Mount Gibson area between Wubin and Paynes Find, Western Australia.^[2]

See also[]

• List of Grevillea species

References[]