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  1. Family: Proteaceae Juss.

    1. Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight

        2. This genus is accepted, and its native range is Central Malesia to New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia.

    [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.
    [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, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Mauritius, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., Pakistan, Rwanda, Réunion, Society Is., Solomon Is., St.Helena, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre

    Accepted Species

    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 ”

    Sources

    Flora Zambesiaca
    Flora Zambesiaca
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    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0