Rare grevillea facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Rare grevillea |
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Grevillea
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rara
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Grevillea rara, also known as the rare grevillea, is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to a small area in the South West region of Western Australia.
The dense prickly shrub typically grows to a height of 2 to 3 metres (6.6 to 9.8 ft) and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple dissected subpinnatisect, leaves with a blade that is 20 to 30 millimetres (0.79 to 1.18 in) long. It blooms from August to November and produces an axillary or terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with white or pink flowers and white styles.
Grevillea rara is found amongst tall shrubs or medium trees in shrubland and Jarrah forest in a small area north Collie. It grows in lateritic, gravelly, sandy or clay soils. Associated species include Eucalyptus marginata, Corymbia calophylla, Banksia grandis, Hakea lasiantha, Xanthorrhoea preissii, Acacia pulchella, and Acacia drummondii Currently there are six known populations of the plant comprising 1,515 individual plants
First described in Nuytsia in 1993 the plant was declared as Rare Flora under the Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 in 1998 and ranked as Endangered the following year by the World Conservation Union.
The species is closely related to Grevillea curviloba with slight differences such as fine hairs on the branchlets and inflorescence stems and narrow leaf lobes.
