Grevillea bipinnatifida

Grevillea bipinnatifida, commonly known as fuchsia grevillea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub, usually with bipinnatifid leaves and loose clusters of dull pink to crimson flowers.

Fuchsia grevillea
Grevillea bipinnatifida in Maranoa Gardens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Grevillea
Species:
G. bipinnatifida
Binomial name
Grevillea bipinnatifida
Synonyms[1]
  • Grevillea bipinnatifida var. glabrata Meisn.
  • Grevillea bipinnatifida var. vulgaris Meisn.

Description

Grevillea bipinnatifida is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.25–1.0 m (9.8 in – 3 ft 3.4 in). Its leaves are usually bipinnatifid, 40–150 mm (1.6–5.9 in) long with six to eighteen lobes, the end lobes usually triangular, 3–20 mm (0.12–0.79 in) long and 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) wide and sharply pointed. The flowers are arranged along a rachis 400–200 mm (15.7–7.9 in) long and are dull pink to crimson, sometimes pale green or pale orange and the pistil is 34–42 mm (1.3–1.7 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to December and the fruit is a woolly-hairy follicle 17–21 mm (0.67–0.83 in) long.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Grevillea bipinnatifida was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae from specimens collected by Charles Fraser near the Swan River in 1827.[4][5] The specific epithet (bipinnatifida) means "bipinnatifid", referring to the leaves that are pinnatifid, the parts themselves pinnatifid.[6]

In 2004, Raymond Cranfield described two subspecies in the journal Nuytsia, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

  • Grevillea bipinnatifida R.Br. subsp. bipinnatifida[7] has primary leaf lobes 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) wide;[8]
  • Grevillea bipinnatifida subsp. pagna Cranfield[9] has primary leaf lobes 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) wide.[8]

Distribution and habitat

Fuchsia grevillea grows in heath, open forest and woodland between Mogumber and Collie, mainly on the Darling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.[2][3] Subspecies pagna is only known from near Waroona where it grows in shrubland.[8]

Cultivars

Hybrid cultivars have been produced which have Grevillea bipinnatifida as a parent species. These include hybrids with Grevillea banksii such as:

Other hybrids include:

  • G. 'Molly' (a cross with G. aurea)
  • G. 'Sunrise' (a cross with G. 'Clearview Robin')

References

  1. "Grevillea bipinnatifida". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  2. "Grevillea bipinnatifida". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. "Grevillea bipinnatifida". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  4. "Grevillea bipinnatifida". APNI. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  5. Brown, Robert (1830). Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae. London. p. 23. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 147. ISBN 9780958034180.
  7. "Grevillea bipinnatifida subsp. bipinnatifida". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  8. Cranfield, Raymond J. (2004). "Grevillea bipinnatifida subsp. pagna (Proteaceae), a new subspecies from south-west Western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 15 (2): 187–191. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  9. "Grevillea bipinnatifida subsp. pagna". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  10. "Grevillea 'Coconut Ice'". www.anbg.gov.au.
  11. Olde, P. (July 2001). "Grevillea 'Claire Dee' - the Robyn Gordon of the West" (PDF). Grevillea Study Group newsletter (59): 5. ISSN 0725-8755. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
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