Английская Википедия:Grevillea acuaria

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Grevillea acuaria is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rounded, bushy to erect shrub with spreading linear to narrowly elliptic leaves and red flowers arranged in small clusters.

Description

Grevillea acuaria is a rounded, bushy to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its leaves are mostly linear to cylindrical, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with the edges turned down or rolled under. The flowers are usually arranged in groups of four to six on the ends of branches or in leaf axils on a flowering stem less than Шаблон:Cvt long, and are scarlet to deep burgundy, the style green or red, often with a green tip. Each flower is on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long, and the pistil is Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering mainly occurs from May to October and the fruit is an oval follicle Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Grevillea acuaria was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham from an unpublished manuscript by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Flora Australiensis from material collected by James Drummond.[3][4] The specific epithet (acuaria) means "possessing needles".[5]

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in a wide variety of habitats, often in winter-wet situations and is widespread in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of Western Australia.[1][2]

Conservation status

Grevillea acuaria is listed as "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is a widespread, common species with a stable population and no known threats, either current or in the near future.[6]

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