Grevillea nana
Grevillea nana, commonly known as dwarf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low, mounded, dense shrub with divided leaves with sharply-pointed, linear lobes, and clusters of pink, orange, yellow or red flowers.
Description
Grevillea nana is a prostrate to dense, mounded shrub that typically grows to high and wide. Its leaves are long and divided with 5 to 19 lobes, their size varying with subspecies. The flowers are arranged near the ground and at the base of the foliage on a rachis long, and are silky- to woolly-hairy on the outside, the colour varying with subspecies, the pistil long. Flowering time also varies with subspecies, and the fruit is a hairy follicle long.Taxonomy
Grevillea nana was first formally described in 1943 by Charles Gardner in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia from specimens collected by William Blackall between Koorda and Bencubbin. The specific epithet means "dwarf".In 1986, Donald McGillivray described two subspecies of G. nana in his book, New Names in Grevillea , and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Grevillea nana subsp. abbreviata McGill. has leaves with 7 to 19 lobes that are usually long and wide, and green or greenish-fawn flowers with a pink to purplish style from August to October.Grevillea nana C.A.Gardner subsp. nana has leaves with 5 to 13 lobes that are long and wide, and creamy-green or greenish-pink to scarlet flowers with a purplish, red or pale orange style from June to October.