- Family: Proteaceae Juss.
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Central Malesia to New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia.
Descriptions
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]Flora Zambesiaca. Vol. 9, Part 3. Polygonaceae-Myriaceae. Pope GV, Polhill RM, Martins ES. 2006.
- Habit
- Shrubs or (in the Flora Zambesiaca area) trees Tree up to 30 m high Shrubs or (in the Flora Zambesiaca area) trees.
- Leaves
- Leaves simple or (more commonly in the Flora area) pinnately to bi-pinnately divided Leaves up to 35 cm long, pinnate with up to 22 alternate or subopposite pinnae, the pinnae with 1–several linear or linear-oblong acute lobes to deeply pinnatifid or pinnate with up to 16 lobes or pinnules, glabrous above, closely appressed pubescent beneath Leaves simple or (more commonly in the Flora area) pinnately to bi-pinnately divided.
- Flowers
- Flowers in short or long simple or branched racemes; bracts caducous Flowers in short or long simple or branched racemes; bracts caducous.
- Perianth
- Perianth tubular, expanded distally into a limb enclosing the stamens, the tube splitting on one side to release the style Perianth 7–10 mm long, glabrous, bright yellow to orange or reddish Perianth tubular, expanded distally into a limb enclosing the stamens, the tube splitting on one side to release the style.
- Fruits
- Fruit a dehiscent follicle; seeds 2. Fruits c. 15 × 10 mm, blackish, glabrous. Fruit a dehiscent follicle; seeds 2.
- Note
- In addition to G. robusta several other Grevillea species are cultivated in the Flora area. G. banksii R. Br., recorded by White, For. Fl. Northern Rhodesia: 37 (1962), is similar to G. robusta but is usually a much smaller plant seldom exceeding 5 m with simply pinnate or pinnatifid leaves, densely brown-tomentose inflorescence and flowers, shorter pedicels up to 7 mm, and brown-tomentose shoots. G. linearifolia (Cav.) Druce (G. linearis R. Br.) is a cultivated shrub with linear leaves and pubescent flowers (Biegel 5213 from gardens in Harare, Zimbabwe). Biegel 3362, also from cultivation in Harare with linear leaves and glabrous flowers, has been identified by the National Herbarium, Sydney, Australia, as possibly a hybrid between G. lanigera R. Br. and G. rosmarinifolia A. Cunn. An extensive literature exists on its use in agroforestry, see C.E. Harwood, Grevillea robusta: an annotated bibliography (1989) and C.E. Harwood (ed.), Grevillea robusta in Agroforestry and Forestry: Proc. Internat. Workshop (1992), both published by the International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence with main axis up to 24 cm long, usually with several simple lateral branches from near the base, appressed-pubescent towards the base but glabrous distally; pedicels 9–15 mm long, glabrous
- Distribution
- Mozambique ZAM N, MOZ N, MOZ M Zambia About 360 species, almost all in Australia, a few species extending to New Guinea, New Caledonia and Sulawesi. Native of Australia (Queensland and northern New South Wales), where it is confusingly known as Silky Oak, now commonly cultivated in the Flora Zambesiaca area as a street tree, as a shade tree on tea or coffee plantations or as a garden ornamental.
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Proteaceae, R.K. Brummitt & Serena K. Marner. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1993
- Habit
- Shrubs or (in Flora area) trees
- Leaves
- Leaves simple or (more commonly in Flora area) pinnately to bipinnately divided
- Flowers
- Flowers in short or long simple or branched racemes; bracts caducous
- Perianth
- Perianth tubular, expanded distally into a limb enclosing the stamens, the tube splitting on one side to release the style
- Fruits
- Fruit a dehiscent follicle; seeds 2.
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Distribution
Native to:
New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Sulawesi, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Cuba, Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Italy, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Mauritius, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., Rwanda, Réunion, Society Is., Solomon Is., St.Helena, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre
Accepted Species
- Grevillea acacioides C.A.Gardner ex McGill.
- Grevillea acanthifolia A.Cunn.
- Grevillea acerata McGill.
- Grevillea acrobotrya Meisn.
- Grevillea acropogon Makinson
- Grevillea acuaria F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Grevillea adenotricha McGill.
- Grevillea agrifolia A.Cunn. ex R.Br.
- Grevillea albiflora C.T.White
- Grevillea alpina Lindl.
- Grevillea alpivaga Gand.
- Grevillea althoferorum Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea amplexans F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Grevillea anethifolia R.Br.
- Grevillea aneura McGill.
- Grevillea angulata R.Br.
- Grevillea angustiloba (F.Muell.) Downing
- Grevillea annulifera F.Muell.
- Grevillea aquifolium Lindl.
- Grevillea arenaria R.Br.
- Grevillea argyrophylla Meisn.
- Grevillea armigera Meisn.
- Grevillea asparagoides Meisn.
- Grevillea aspera R.Br.
- Grevillea aspleniifolia Knight
- Grevillea asteriscosa Diels
- Grevillea aurea Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea australis R.Br.
- Grevillea baileyana McGill.
- Grevillea banksii R.Br.
- Grevillea banyabba Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea barklyana F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Grevillea batrachioides F.Muell. ex McGill.
- Grevillea baueri R.Br.
- Grevillea baxteri R.Br.
- Grevillea beadleana McGill.
- Grevillea beardiana McGill.
- Grevillea bedggoodiana J.H.Willis ex McGill.
- Grevillea bemboka Stajsic & Molyneux
- Grevillea benthamiana McGill.
- Grevillea berryana Ewart & Jean White
- Grevillea biformis Meisn.
- Grevillea bipinnatifida R.Br.
- Grevillea biternata Meisn.
- Grevillea brachystachya Meisn.
- Grevillea brachystylis Meisn.
- Grevillea bracteosa Meisn.
- Grevillea brevifolia F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Grevillea brevis Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea bronweniae Keighery
- Grevillea burrowa Molyneux & Forrester
- Grevillea buxifolia (Sm.) R.Br.
- Grevillea byrnesii McGill.
- Grevillea cagiana McGill.
- Grevillea calcicola A.S.George
- Grevillea caleyi R.Br.
- Grevillea calliantha Makinson & Olde
- Grevillea callichlaena Molyneux & Stajsic
- Grevillea candelabroides C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea candicans C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea candolleana Meisn.
- Grevillea capitellata Meisn.
- Grevillea celata Molyneux
- Grevillea centristigma (McGill.) Keighery
- Grevillea ceratocarpa Diels
- Grevillea cheilocarpa Makinson
- Grevillea christiniae McGill.
- Grevillea chrysophaea F.Muell. ex Meisn.
- Grevillea cirsiifolia Meisn.
- Grevillea coccinea Meisn.
- Grevillea commutata F.Muell.
- Grevillea concinna R.Br.
- Grevillea confertifolia F.Muell.
- Grevillea corrugata Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea costata C.A.Gardner ex A.S.George
- Grevillea crassifolia Domin
- Grevillea cravenii Makinson
- Grevillea crithmifolia R.Br.
- Grevillea crowleyae Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea cunninghamii R.Br.
- Grevillea curviloba McGill.
- Grevillea cyranostigma McGill.
- Grevillea decipiens McGill.
- Grevillea decora Domin
- Grevillea decurrens Ewart
- Grevillea deflexa F.Muell.
- Grevillea delta (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea depauperata R.Br.
- Grevillea didymobotrya Meisn.
- Grevillea dielsiana C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea diffusa Sieber ex Spreng.
- Grevillea dilatata (R.Br.) Downing
- Grevillea dimidiata F.Muell.
- Grevillea diminuta L.A.S.Johnson
- Grevillea dimorpha F.Muell.
- Grevillea disjuncta F.Muell.
- Grevillea divaricata R.Br.
- Grevillea diversifolia Meisn.
- Grevillea dolichopoda (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea donaldiana Kenneally
- Grevillea drummondii Meisn.
- Grevillea dryandri R.Br.
- Grevillea dryandroides C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea dryophylla N.A.Wakef.
- Grevillea dunlopii Makinson
- Grevillea elbertii Sleumer
- Grevillea elongata Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea endlicheriana Meisn.
- Grevillea epicroca Stajsic & Molyneux
- Grevillea erectiloba F.Muell.
- Grevillea eremophila (Diels) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea erinacea Meisn.
- Grevillea eriobotrya F.Muell.
- Grevillea eriostachya Lindl.
- Grevillea eryngioides Benth.
- Grevillea erythroclada W.Fitzg.
- Grevillea evanescens Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea evansiana MacKee
- Grevillea excelsior Diels
- Grevillea exposita Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea extorris S.Moore
- Grevillea exul Lindl.
- Grevillea fasciculata R.Br.
- Grevillea fastigiata Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea fililoba (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea fistulosa A.S.George
- Grevillea flexuosa Meisn.
- Grevillea floribunda R.Br.
- Grevillea florida (McGill.) Makinson
- Grevillea floripendula R.V.Sm.
- Grevillea formosa McGill.
- Grevillea fulgens C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea fuscolutea Keighery
- Grevillea gariwerdensis Makinson
- Grevillea × gaudichaudii R.Br. ex Gaudich.
- Grevillea georgeana McGill.
- Grevillea gillivrayi Hook.
- Grevillea glabrescens Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea glauca Banks & Sol. ex Knight
- Grevillea globosa C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea glossadenia McGill.
- Grevillea goodii R.Br.
- Grevillea gordoniana C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea granulifera (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea granulosa McGill.
- Grevillea guthrieana Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea hakeoides Meisn.
- Grevillea halmaturina Tate
- Grevillea haplantha F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Grevillea heliosperma R.Br.
- Grevillea helmsiae F.M.Bailey
- Grevillea hilliana F.Muell.
- Grevillea hirtella (Benth.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea hislopii Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea hockingsii Molyneux & Olde
- Grevillea hodgei Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea hookeriana Meisn.
- Grevillea huegelii Meisn.
- Grevillea humifusa Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea humilis Makinson
- Grevillea iaspicula McGill.
- Grevillea ilicifolia (R.Br.) R.Br.
- Grevillea imberbis Makinson
- Grevillea inconspicua Diels
- Grevillea incrassata Diels
- Grevillea incurva (Diels) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea infecunda McGill.
- Grevillea infundibularis A.S.George
- Grevillea insignis Kippist ex Meisn.
- Grevillea integrifolia Meisn.
- Grevillea intricata Meisn.
- Grevillea involucrata A.S.George
- Grevillea irrasa Makinson
- Grevillea jephcottii J.H.Willis
- Grevillea johnsonii McGill.
- Grevillea juncifolia Hook.
- Grevillea juniperina R.Br.
- Grevillea kedumbensis (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea kenneallyi McGill.
- Grevillea kennedyana F.Muell.
- Grevillea kirkalocka Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea lanigera A.Cunn. ex R.Br.
- Grevillea latifolia C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea laurifolia Sieber ex Spreng.
- Grevillea lavandulacea Schltdl.
- Grevillea leiophylla F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Grevillea leptobotrys Meisn.
- Grevillea leptopoda McGill.
- Grevillea leucoclada McGill.
- Grevillea leucopteris Meisn.
- Grevillea levis Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea linearifolia (Cav.) Druce
- Grevillea linsmithii McGill.
- Grevillea lissopleura McGill.
- Grevillea longicuspis McGill.
- Grevillea longifolia R.Br.
- Grevillea longistyla Hook.
- Grevillea lullfitzii McGill.
- Grevillea maccutcheonii Keighery & Cranfield
- Grevillea macleayana (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea maherae Makinson & M.D.Barrett
- Grevillea makinsonii McGill.
- Grevillea manglesii (Graham) Planch.
- Grevillea manglesioides Meisn.
- Grevillea marriottii Olde
- Grevillea masonii Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea maxwellii McGill.
- Grevillea mcgillivrayi I.M.Turner
- Grevillea meisneri Montrouz.
- Grevillea metamorpha Makinson
- Grevillea micrantha Meisn.
- Grevillea microstegia Molyneux
- Grevillea microstyla M.D.Barrett & Makinson
- Grevillea mimosoides R.Br.
- Grevillea miniata W.Fitzg.
- Grevillea minutiflora McGill.
- Grevillea miqueliana F.Muell.
- Grevillea mollis Olde & Molyneux
- Grevillea molyneuxii McGill.
- Grevillea monslacana Molyneux & Stajsic
- Grevillea montana R.Br.
- Grevillea monticola Meisn.
- Grevillea montis-cole R.V.Sm.
- Grevillea mucronulata R.Br.
- Grevillea muelleri Benth.
- Grevillea murex McGill.
- Grevillea muricata J.M.Black
- Grevillea myosodes McGill.
- Grevillea nana C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea nematophylla F.Muell.
- Grevillea neodissecta I.M.Turner
- Grevillea neorigida I.M.Turner
- Grevillea neurophylla Gand.
- Grevillea newbeyi McGill.
- Grevillea nivea Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea nudiflora Meisn.
- Grevillea obliquistigma C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea obtecta Molyneux
- Grevillea obtusiflora R.Br.
- Grevillea obtusifolia Meisn.
- Grevillea occidentalis R.Br.
- Grevillea oldei McGill.
- Grevillea oleoides Sieber
- Grevillea oligantha F.Muell.
- Grevillea oligomera (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea olivacea A.S.George
- Grevillea oncogyne Diels
- Grevillea oxyantha Makinson
- Grevillea pachylostyla (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea paniculata Meisn.
- Grevillea papillosa (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea papuana Diels
- Grevillea paradoxa F.Muell.
- Grevillea parallela Knight
- Grevillea parallelinervis Carrick
- Grevillea parviflora R.Br.
- Grevillea parvula Molyneux & Stajsic
- Grevillea patentiloba F.Muell.
- Grevillea patulifolia Gand.
- Grevillea pauciflora R.Br.
- Grevillea pectinata R.Br.
- Grevillea petrophiloides Meisn.
- Grevillea phanerophlebia Diels
- Grevillea phillipsiana McGill.
- Grevillea phylicoides R.Br.
- Grevillea pilosa A.S.George
- Grevillea pilulifera (Lindl.) Druce
- Grevillea pimeleoides W.Fitzg.
- Grevillea pinaster Meisn.
- Grevillea pinifolia Meisn.
- Grevillea pityophylla F.Muell.
- Grevillea pluricaulis (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea plurijuga F.Muell.
- Grevillea polyacida McGill.
- Grevillea polybotrya Meisn.
- Grevillea polybractea H.B.Will.
- Grevillea polychroma (Molyneux & Stajsic) Molyneux & Stajsic
- Grevillea prasina McGill.
- Grevillea preissei Meisn.
- Grevillea prominens Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea prostrata C.A.Gardner & A.S.George
- Grevillea psilantha McGill.
- Grevillea pteridifolia Knight
- Grevillea pterosperma F.Muell.
- Grevillea pulchella (R.Br.) Meisn.
- Grevillea punctata Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea pungens R.Br.
- Grevillea punicea R.Br.
- Grevillea pyramidalis A.Cunn. ex R.Br.
- Grevillea pythara Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea quadricauda Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea quercifolia R.Br.
- Grevillea quinquenervis J.M.Black
- Grevillea ramosissima (R.Br.) Meisn.
- Grevillea rara Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea raybrownii Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea refracta R.Br.
- Grevillea renwickiana F.Muell.
- Grevillea repens F.Muell. ex Meisn.
- Grevillea reptans Makinson
- Grevillea rhizomatosa Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea rhyolitica Makinson
- Grevillea ripicola A.S.George
- Grevillea rivularis L.A.S.Johnson & McGill.
- Grevillea robusta A.Cunn. ex R.Br.
- Grevillea rogersoniana C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea rosieri McGill.
- Grevillea rosmarinifolia A.Cunn.
- Grevillea roycei McGill.
- Grevillea rubicunda S.Moore
- Grevillea rudis Meisn.
- Grevillea saccata Benth.
- Grevillea sarissa S.Moore
- Grevillea saxicola S.J.Dillon
- Grevillea scabra Meisn.
- Grevillea scabrida C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea scapigera A.S.George
- Grevillea scortechinii (F.Muell. ex Scort.) F.Muell.
- Grevillea secunda McGill.
- Grevillea sericea (Sm.) R.Br.
- Grevillea sessilis C.T.White & W.D.Francis
- Grevillea shiressii Blakely
- Grevillea shuttleworthiana Meisn.
- Grevillea singuliflora F.Muell.
- Grevillea sparsiflora F.Muell.
- Grevillea speciosa (Knight) McGill.
- Grevillea sphacelata R.Br.
- Grevillea spinosa McGill.
- Grevillea spinosissima McGill.
- Grevillea squiresiae Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea steiglitziana N.A.Wakef.
- Grevillea stenobotrya F.Muell.
- Grevillea stenogyne (Benth.) Makinson
- Grevillea stenomera F.Muell.
- Grevillea stenostachya C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea striata R.Br.
- Grevillea subterlineata Makinson
- Grevillea subtiliflora McGill.
- Grevillea sulcata C.A.Gardner ex Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea synapheae R.Br.
- Grevillea tenuiflora Meisn.
- Grevillea tenuiloba C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea teretifolia Meisn.
- Grevillea tetragonoloba Meisn.
- Grevillea tetrapleura McGill.
- Grevillea thelemanniana Hügel ex Lindl.
- Grevillea thyrsoides Meisn.
- Grevillea trachytheca F.Muell.
- Grevillea treueriana F.Muell.
- Grevillea trifida (R.Br.) Meisn.
- Grevillea triloba Meisn.
- Grevillea tripartita Meisn.
- Grevillea triternata R.Br.
- Grevillea umbellulata Meisn.
- Grevillea uncinulata Diels
- Grevillea uniformis (McGill.) Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea variifolia C.A.Gardner & A.S.George
- Grevillea velutinella McGill.
- Grevillea venusta R.Br.
- Grevillea versicolor McGill.
- Grevillea vestita (Endl.) Meisn.
- Grevillea victoriae F.Muell.
- Grevillea virgata Makinson
- Grevillea viridiflava Makinson
- Grevillea whiteana McGill.
- Grevillea wickhamii Meisn.
- Grevillea wilkinsonii Makinson
- Grevillea williamsoni F.Muell.
- Grevillea willisii R.V.Sm. & McGill.
- Grevillea wilsonii A.Cunn.
- Grevillea wiradjuri Makinson
- Grevillea wittweri McGill.
- Grevillea xiphoidea Olde & Marriott
- Grevillea yorkrakinensis C.A.Gardner
- Grevillea zygoloba Olde & Marriott
Synonyms
Other Data
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Cult. Prot.: 120 (1809)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS G: 1-40325.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Fl. Australia 17A: 149 (2000).
- Fl. Australia 17A: 1–524 (2000).
- Fl. Ethiopia 2, 1: 436, fig. 55.1/6–8 (2000).
- Makinson in Fl. Australia 17A: 1–524 (2000).
- F.T.E.A., Proteaceae: 2 (1993).
- White, For. Fl. Northern Rhodesia: 37 (1962).
- Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10: 167 (1810).
- corr. R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10: 167 (1810).
- Grevillea R. Br. ex Knight, Cult. Proteeae: 120 (1809) nom. conserv., as ‘Grevillia’.
- Cult. Proteeae: 120 (1809) nom. conserv., as ‘Grevillia’.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- corr. R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc, Bot. 10: 167 (1810), nom. conserv.
- Cult Proteeae: 120 (1809), as “ Grevillia ”
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Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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