Grevillea miniata
{{short description|Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to Western Australia and the Northern Territory}}
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|genus = Grevillea
|species = miniata
|status_system = DECF
|status = P4
|authority = W.Fitzg.{{cite web|title=Grevillea miniata|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/95687|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=8 July 2022}}
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Grevillea miniata, commonly known as sandstone grevillea,{{cite book|title=Australian plants as Aboriginal Tools|author=Philip A. Clarke|year=2012|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing|ISBN=9781922013576}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub or small tree with more or less oblong leaves and bright yellow to orange and bright red flowers with a yellow style.
Description
Grevillea miniata is a spreading to erect shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|2–4|m}}. Its leaves are more or less oblong, {{cvt|45–150|mm}} long and {{cvt|30–70|mm}} wide with 9 to 25, usually sharply pointed teeth. The lower surface of the leaves is covered with slightly felty hairs. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in clusters on a rachis {{cvt|30–50|mm}} long and are bright yellow and deep green at first, later orange or deep yellow and bright red as the flowers open, the style yellow and the pistil {{cvt|11–13.5|mm}} long and hairy. Flowering occurs from April to August, and the fruit is an oblong to oval follicle {{cvt|14–18|mm}} long.{{cite web |title=Grevillea miniata |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Grevillea%20miniata |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=8 July 2022}}{{FloraBase|name=Grevillea miniata|id=2040}}
Taxonomy
Grevillea miniata was first formally described in 1918 by William Vincent Fitzgerald in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia from specimens he collected in the Lady Forrest Range.{{cite web|title=Grevillea miniata|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/519759|publisher=APNI|access-date=8 July 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=William V. |title=The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. |journal=Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia |date=1918 |volume=3 |pages=131–132 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/172166#page/143/mode/1up |access-date=8 July 2022}} The specific epithet (miniata) means "flame scarlet".{{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=253 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This grevillea grows in shrubland or woodland in rocky places or low hills from the southern end of the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges to the Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia and scattered locations in the north of the Northern Territory.{{cite web |title=Grevillea miniata |url=http://eflora.nt.gov.au/factsheet?id=5045 |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=8 July 2022}}
Conservation status
Grevillea miniata is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is rare or near threatened.{{cite web|title=Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna|url=https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/plants-animals/threatened-species/Listings/Conservation%20code%20definitions.pdf|publisher=Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife|accessdate=8 July 2022}}