Grevillea brevifolia, commonly known as Cobberas grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading shrub with hairy branchlets, elliptic leaves and clusters of hairy red flowers.
Description
Grevillea brevifolia is a spreading shrub, typically high and wide, its branchlets silky-hairy. Its leaves are usually elliptic, sometimes egg-shaped, mostly long and wide, the upper surface mostly glossy and glabrous, the lower surface densely silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in pendulous clusters on the ends of branchlets with many flowers, the rachis usually long. The flowers are red and woolly-hairy on the outside, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from late August to May and the fruit is a glabrous follicle long.
Taxonomy
Grevillea brevifolia first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from an unpublished description by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller who collected the type specimens from Mount Tambo in Victoria at an altitude of . The specific epithet (brevifolia) means "short-leaved".
Distribution and habitat
Cobberas grevillea grows in alpine and subalpine woodlands, often in rocky places in north-eastern Victoria and as far north as Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales.
References
External links
Herbarium specimen at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
brevifolia
Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of New South Wales Proteales of Australia Taxa named by George Bentham Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller Plants described in 1870