Grevillea deflexa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to inland areas of central Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear to elliptic or egg-shaped leaves, and groups of red, yellow or red and yellow flowers.
Description
Grevillea deflexa is a low to open, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–2 m (7.9 in – 6 ft 6.7 in). Its leaves are linear, elliptic, narrowly egg-shaped, or lance-shaped, 10–90 mm (0.39–3.54 in) long and 0.7–10 mm (0.028–0.394 in) wide, the lower surface silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in loose groups of two to five in leaf axils on a rachis 20–50 mm (0.79–1.97 in) long. The flowers are red, yellow or red and yellow with a red or yellow style, the pistil 17–24 mm (0.67–0.94 in) long and silky-hairy. Flowering occurs from May to October and the fruit is an elliptic to oval follicle 11–16 mm (0.43–0.63 in) long.[3][4]
Taxonomy
Grevillea deflexa was first formally described in 1883 by Ferdinand von Mueller in The Chemist and Druggist with Australasian Supplement from specimens collected near the Gascoyne River.[5][6] The specific epithet (deflexa) means "bent or turned downwards", referring to the flowers.[7]
^ ab"Grevillea deflexa". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
^von Mueller, Ferdinand (1883). "Brief notes on the genus Grevillea". The Chemist and Druggist with Australasian Supplement. 5 (57): 72. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
^Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 180. ISBN9780958034180.
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