Grevillea goodii, also known as Good's grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a prostrate shrub with egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves and clusters of light green flowers with a pink to red style.
Description
Grevillea goodii is a prostrate shrub with stems trailing from a lignotuber. Its leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The edges of the leaves are wavy and the lower surface is pimply and slightly hairy. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branches on a flowering stem longer than the leaves, on a rachis long. The flowers are light green with rust-coloured and pale hairs, the pistil long and the style pink to red. Flowering mainly occurs from November to April and the fruit is a hairy, oblong to more or less spherical follicle about long.
Taxonomy
Grevillea goodii was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. The specific epithet (goodii) honours Brown's assistant, Peter Good.
Distribution and habitat
Good's grevillea occurs in the tropical Top End of the Northern Territory, from Darwin eastwards to Gunbalanya, and southwards almost as far as Pine Creek. It grows on siliceous sandy or loamy soils in low heath, savanna woodland and open eucalypt forest.
References
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Proteales of Australia
Endemic flora of Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Plants described in 1810
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)