Английская Википедия:Grevillea candolleana

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Habit

Grevillea candolleana, commonly known as the Toodyay grevillea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrow egg-shaped to linear leaves and white to cream-coloured flowers.

Description

Grevillea candolleana is a shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its leaves are narrow egg-shaped to narrow elliptic or linear, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide, with the edges turned down or rolled under. The lower surface of the leaves is covered with soft, felty hairs. The flowers are white to cream-coloured, the pistil Шаблон:Cvt long and covered with shaggy hairs. There is a tongue-shaped, yellow appendage Шаблон:Cvt long on the style, that turns orange, then red as it ages. Flowering mostly occurs from August to November and the fruit is a softly-hairy follicle Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Grevillea candolleana was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony.[3][4] The specific epithet (candolleana) honours Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.[5]

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in woodland in a small area around Toodyay in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.[1][2]

Conservation status

Grevillea candicans is listed as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[1] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.[6]

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