Grevillea juncifolia
Grevillea juncifolia, commonly known as honeysuckle grevillea, honey grevillea, honeysuckle spider flower, and many indigenous names, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a bushy shrub or small tree with erect, linear leaves and clusters of bright yellow to orange flowers.
Description
Grevillea juncifolia is a bushy shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of high and has woolly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are linear, long and wide, or divided with more or less parallel lobes long. The edges of the leaves or lobes are rolled under with two parallel woolly-hairy grooves on the lower side. The flowers are arranged in branched clusters of fifteen to fifty on a rachis long and are bright yellow, sometimes orange, the pistil long. Flowering occurs in most months, with a peak from June to November and the fruit is a hairy follicle long.Taxonomy and naming
Grevillea juncifolia was first formally described in 1848 by English botanist William Jackson Hooker in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia. The specific epithet means "rush-leaved".In 2008, Peter M. Olde and Neil R. Marriott described two subspecies of G. juncifolia in The Grevillea Book, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Grevillea juncifolia Olde & Marriott subsp. juncifolia has leaves that are mostly or all divided with divided leaves;Grevillea juncifolia subsp. temulenta Olde & Marriott has undivided, linear leaves.
Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory give this grevillea many names including tharrkarr, rrwerleng, irrwerlenge, tharrkarre, ultukunpa, ultukunpa, jiriwuru and walunarri.