Grevillea polybractea
{{short description|Species of shrub in the family Proteaceae endemic to New South Wales and Victoria, Australia}}
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|image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
|genus = Grevillea
|species = polybractea
|authority = H.B.Will.{{cite web|title=Grevillea polybractea|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/111194|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=26 August 2022}}
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Grevillea polybractea, commonly known as crimson grevillea,{{cite web |last1=Makinson |first1=Robert O. |title=Grevillea polybractea |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Grevillea~polybractea |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=26 August 2022}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southeast of continental Australia. It is a spreading shrub with linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves and pink to red and yellow or green flowers.
Description
Grevillea polybractea is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.3–1.8|m}} and has many branches. Its leaves are linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, {{cvt|25–75|mm}} long and {{cvt|1–6|mm}} wide, the edges rolled under, sometimes obscuring the lower surface which is otherwise hairy. The flowers are arranged in downturned, more or less spherical clusters of 10 to 20 flowers on a rachis {{cvt|3–10|mm}} long with many egg-shaped bracts {{cvt|2.5–7|mm}} long. The flowers are pink to red and yellow or green with a reddish style, the pistil {{cvt|9.5–14|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a hairy follicle {{cvt|12–15|mm}} long.{{cite web |title=Grevillea polybractea |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Grevillea%20polybractea |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=22 August 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Makinson |first1=Robert O. |title=Grevillea polybractea |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/b83c5a18-440c-475d-b3ef-514c35b94c55 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=26 August 2022}}
Taxonomy
Grevillea polybractea was first formally described in 1927 by Herbert Bennett Williamson in The Victorian Naturalist.{{cite web|title=Grevillea polybractea|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/543638|publisher=APNI|access-date=26 August 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Williamson |first1=Herbert B. |title=A contribution to the genus Grevillea. |journal=The Victorian Naturalist |date=1927 |volume=44 |pages=139–140 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124681#page/146/mode/1up |access-date=26 August 2022}} The specific epithet (polybractea) means "many bracts".{{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 |edition=3rd|page=281}}
Distribution and habitat
Crimson grevillea grows in forest with a scrubby understorey, and occurs south of Dubbo and west of Khancoban in New South Wales, and between Corryong and Mount Granya in far north-eastern Victoria.
Conservation status
This grevillea is listed as "endangered" under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 and as "rare in Victoria" on the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare or Threatened Plants in Victoria.{{cite web |title=Advisory List of Rare or Threatened Plants in Victoria - 2014 |url=https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/50448/Advisory-List-of-Rare-or-Threatened-Plants-in-Victoria-2014.pdf |publisher=Victorian Government Department of Environment and Primary Industries |access-date=26 August 2022}} 26
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Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)