Grevillea ripicola A.S.George
Collie Grevillea
Nuytsia 1:373-374 (1974)
Conservation Code:
Priority Four
Naturalised Status: Native to Western Australia
Name Status:
Current
Brief Description
Grazyna Paczkowska,
Tuesday 15 August 1995
Spreading, much-branched, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.6-2(-3) m high, to 4 m wide. Fl. red/red-orange, Jan or Mar to Apr or Nov to Dec. Sandy clay, clay or gravelly loam. Swampy flats, granite outcrops, along watercourses.
Distribution
Beard’s Provinces: South-West Province.
IBRA Regions: Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions: Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs): Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Collie, Donnybrook-Balingup.
Scientific Description
Chris Hollister and Nicholas S. Lander,
Tuesday 8 April 2008
Habit and leaf form. Shrubs, 2–3 m high. Branchlets not glaucous. Leaves simple, 25–60 mm long overall. Leaf blade dissected, subpinnatisect, bipinnatisect. Leaf lobes 10–30 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide. Margins flat.
Inflorescence and floral features. Inflorescence terminal; a raceme. Flowers yellow or orange, very irregular. Pedicel 3–5 mm long. Perianth 10–12 mm long, glabrous, 4 -partite; lobes all free. Stamens 4. Pistil 28–35 mm long, stipitate; stipe 3–4 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Styles glabrous, yellow or red. Pollen presenter oblique.
Fruit features. Fruit ribbed or ridged or granulose, ellipsoidal or ovoid, glabrous, 13–17 mm long.
Flowering Time. April, or October, or November.
Habitat. Amongst medium trees, or tall (sclerophyll) shrubland, or low (sclerophyll) shrubland; in gravelly soil, or loam, or clay; occupying riverbanks, swamps.
Distribution. Western Australia. Western Australian Botanical Province(s): South-west; IBRA Bioregions SW: JF. Western Australian native; endemic to Western Australia.
Etymology. ripicola (L): ripa the banks of a stream + cola inhabitant.
Descriptions were generated using DELTA format and DELTA software: Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993 onwards, 1995 onwards, 1998)
