Grevillea dryandri
Grevillea dryandri is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with divided leaves with up to seventy or more linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and long clusters of red, orange-red, pink or white flowers.
Description
Grevillea dryandri is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of. It has divided leaves long with mostly ten to sixty linear to narrowly lance-shaped lobes long and wide with the edges turned down or rolled under. The lower surface of the leaflets is silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in clusters, the rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are red, orange-red, pink or white, the pistil long. Flowering time depends on subspecies and the fruit is a thin-walled follicle long.Taxonomy
Grevillea dryandri was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London from specimens collected in Arnhem Land. The specific epithet honours Jonas Carlsson Dryander.In 1986, Donald McGillivray described two subspecies of G. dryandri and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Grevillea dryandri subsp. dasycarpa McGill. differs from the autonym in having leaves with fourteen to thirty pairs of thread-like lobes up to long and wide, pink to bright red flowers with a darker style from March to July, and fruit that is sticky with glandular hairs;Grevillea dryandri R.Br. subsp. dryandri has leaves with 6 to 32 linear lobes long, wide and usually not paired, red, sometimes cream-coloured to white flowers with a red or paler style mostly from January to May, and fruit that is sticky but glabrous;