Английская Википедия:Grevillea prasina

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Grevillea prasina is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a spreading or straggly shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with coarsely-toothed edges, and dense, cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers, the style pale green to white.

Description

Grevillea prasina is a spreading or straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its leaves are egg-shaped or elliptic in outline, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with 5 to 11 evenly-spaced teeth on the edges, both surfaces more or less glabrous and bright yellowish-green. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches or in leaf axils in dense, sometimes branched clusters, each cluster oval to short-cylindrical on a rachis Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are fragrant, cream-coloured at first, later pale yellow and the style is green to white with a green tip, the pistil Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is glabrous, elliptic follicle Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Grevillea prasina was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book New Names in Grevillea (Proteaceae) from specimens collected by Rayden Alfred Perryon "Шаблон:Cvt W/N.W. of Wave Hill Police Station" in 1949.[3] The specific epithet (prasina) means "leek green".[4]

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in open woodland or shrubland between the Pentecost River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Port Keats in the Northern Territory, with a few scattered populations as far east as the Gulf of Carpentaria.[1][2][5]

See also

References

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