Grevillea plurijuga
Grevillea plurijuga is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southern Western Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying or dense mounded to erect shrub with divided leaves with linear lobes and loose clusters of hairy, red or pink flowers.
Description
Grevillea plurijuga is a prostrate to low-lying or dense mounded to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and up to wide. Its leaves are long and mostly divided with 8 to 24 linear lobes long and wide, the edges rolled under, enclosing the lower surface apart from the mid-vein. The flowers are arranged in loose, more or less cylindrical clusters of 8 to 40 on a hairy rachis long. Flowering time and colour varies with subspecies and the fruit is a glabrous, prominently ridged follicle long.Taxonomy
Grevillea plurijuga was first formally described in 1864 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by George Maxwell. The specific epithet means "more yokes", referring to the many leaf lobes.In 2000, Robert Owen Makinson described two subspecies of G. plurijuga in the Flora of Australia, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Grevillea plurijuga F.Muell subsp. plurijuga is a prostrate to low-lying, dense, mounded shrub high with pale grey to pinkish-red and cream-coloured flowers from September to January. The flowers are mostly borne on long, trailing peduncles below the base of the foliage.Grevillea plurijuga subsp. superba Makinson is a dense, robust shrub high usually with pale grey and cream-coloured or pale yellow flowers from October to December. The flowers are mostly borne on erect peduncles held above the foliage.