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Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight

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Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight, Cult. Prot. 120 (1809)
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight

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Exotic
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New Zealand
Political Region

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R.Br. ex Knight
Knight
1809
120
Grevillia
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Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
genus
Grevillea

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Grevillea

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Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight

Prostrate shrublets to tall trees. Lvs alternate, often simple and entire, otherwise toothed, lobed, 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnate, sometimes spine-tipped. Fls in axillary or terminal, elongated or reduced and umbel-like racemes, ☿, pedicellate; bracts usually caducous. Perianth usually somewhat irregular; tube usually revolute and curved under limb, sometimes straight; limb usually globular with segments soon becoming revolute. Anthers sessile in the concave perianth segments. Nectary usually semi-circular, sometimes 2-lobed or ± annular or 0. Ovary usually stipitate, rarely sessile, glabrous; ovules 2. Style persistent, usually ± = perianth, curved and protruding from slit on lower side of perianth tube before apex is free from limb, straightening out at anthesis; apex ± dilated, forming an oblique disc or an erect or lateral cone; stigma small. Fr. a coriaceous or rarely woody follicle, with inner faces of valves concave. Seeds 1-2, with narrow and ± annular wing or wingless.

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Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
Grevillea
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight

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Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
Australia
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Grevillea R.Br. ex Knight
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
5 February 2014
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