Plants → Proteaceae → Grevillea
Grevillea latifolia C.A.Gardner
W.Australia Forests Dept.Bull. 32:43 (1923)
Conservation Status:
Priority Two
Name Status:
Current
Brief Description
Grazyna Paczkowska,
Wednesday 9 August 1995
Single- to many-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.6–2.5(–4) m high. Fl. red, pink, yellow, Mar–Sep/Dec. Sandy soils on sandstone, laterite or quartzite. Distribution: N: CK, NK.
Scientific Description
Chris Hollister and Nicholas S. Lander,
Tuesday 8 April 2008
Habit and leaf form. Shrubs, 1–2.5 m high. Branchlets not glaucous. Leaves simple, 70–160 mm long overall. Leaf blade 70–135 mm wide, undissected, flat, orbicular. Margins entire, flat.
Inflorescence and floral features. Inflorescence terminal; a raceme. Flowers red or pink (rarely white), very irregular. Pedicel 6–8 mm long. Perianth 12–15 mm long, glabrous, 4 -partite; lobes free and joined. Stamens 4. Pistil 12–17 mm long, stipitate; stipe 2–4 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Styles glabrous, white. Pollen presenter lateral.
Fruit features. Fruit elliptic, glabrous, not viscid, 16–19 mm long.
Flowering Time. March, or April, or May, or June, or July, or August, or September.
Habitat. Amongst medium trees, or low trees, or low (sclerophyll) shrubland; in sand, or loam (sandstone).
Distribution. Western Australia. Western Australian Botanical Province(s): Northern; IBRA Bioregions N: NK and CK. Western Australian native; endemic to Western Australia.
Etymology. latifolia (L): latus broad + folium leaf.
Descriptions were generated using DELTA format and DELTA software: Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993 onwards, 1995 onwards, 1998)
