Grevillea intricata
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image_caption = In Maranoa Gardens
|genus = Grevillea
|species = intricata
|authority = Meisn.{{cite web|title=Grevillea intricata|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/85011|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=27 May 2022}}
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Grevillea intricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a densely-branched shrub with tangled branchlets, divided leaves with linear lobes and clusters of pale greenish-white to light cream-coloured flowers.
Description
Grevillea intricata is a densely branched shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.5–3|m}} and has tangled foliage. Its leaves are {{cvt|80–160|mm}} long and divided with widely-spreading linear lobes, the end lobes {{cvt|20–80|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.4–1.1|mm}} wide. The flowers are pale greenish-white to light cream-coloured and are arranged in sometimes branched clusters, each branch oval to narrowly conical on a rachis {{cvt|50–80|mm}} long, the pistil {{cvt|4.5–5.5|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from May to October and the fruit is a knobbly, oblong follicle {{cvt|11–15|mm}} long.{{FloraBase|name=Grevillea intricata |id=2023 }}{{cite web |title=Grevillea intricata |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Grevillea%20intricata |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=27 May 2022}}
Taxonomy
Grevillea intricata was first formally described by botanist Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany based on material collected by James Drummond.{{cite web|title=Grevillea intricata|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/503528|publisher=APNI|access-date=27 May 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Meisner |first1=Carl |editor-last1=Hooker |editor-first1=William Jackson |title=New Proteaceae of Australia |journal=Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany |date=1855 |volume=7 |page=74 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/6325#page/76/mode/1up |access-date=27 May 2022}} The specific epithet (intricata) means "entangled".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=226 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This grevillea grows in heath, or tall shrubland and mallee shrubland between Northampton, Ajana and the Chapman East River in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion in the west of Western Australia.
Conservation status
Grevillea intricata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
References
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Category:Eudicots of Western Australia
Category:Proteales of Australia