Grevillea oldei
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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|genus = Grevillea
|species = oldei
|authority = McGill.{{cite web|title=Grevillea oldei|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/96438|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=2 August 2022}}
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Grevillea oldei is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a small area of eastern New South Wales. It is a diffuse shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to more or less triangular leaves, and red flowers.
Description
Grevillea oldei is a diffuse shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.4–1.2|m}}. It often has arching branches and shaggy-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to more or less triangular, lance-shaped, narrowly elliptic or oblong, mostly {{cvt|10–35|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.5–6|mm}} wide with the edges turned down and usually sharply pointed. The lower surface of the leaves is covered with loose, untidy, shaggy hairs. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in more or less spherical clusters on a wiry, sometimes branched peduncle up to {{cvt|50|mm}} long. The flowers are bright to dark red, the pistil {{cvt|9.5–15|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from June to February and the fruit is a glabrous, oblong follicle {{cvt|14–15|mm}} long.{{cite web |last1=Makinson |first1=Robert O. |title=Grevillea oldei |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~oldei |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=2 August 2022}}{{cite web |title=Grevillea oldei |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Grevillea%20oldei |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=2 August 2022}}
Plants of this species have previously been misidentified as either Grevillea juniperina subsp trinervis or G. capitellata.
Taxonomy
Grevillea oldei was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae) from specimens collected by [https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/moore-charles-w-edwin.html Charles William Edwin (Ted) Moore] near Ourimbah in 1972.{{cite web|title=Grevillea oldei|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/521017|publisher=APNI|access-date=2 August 2022}} The specific epithet (oldei) honours Peter M. Olde.{{cite web|title=Grevillea oldei|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/51342418|publisher=APNI|access-date=2 August 2022}}
Distribution and habitat
This grevillea grows in woodland or heath between Mangrove Mountain and Woy Woy in eastern New South Wales.
References
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Proteales of Australia