Grevillea concinna
Grevillea concinna, commonly known as red combs or elegant grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with mostly linear to narrow wedge-shaped leaves sometimes with a sharp point on the tip. Flower colour varies with subspecies.
Description
Grevillea concinna is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its leaves are usually narrowly wedge-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide. The leaves are sometimes divided with two or three linear lobes of the same dimensions as the simple leaves. The flowers are arranged in toothbrush-shaped groups on a rachis long, the pistil long with a glabrous style. Flower colour varies with subspecies, being silvery to cream-coloured or yellowish green for subsp. concinna and lemonish-green, later orange-brown. The fruit is a hairy follicle long.Taxonomy
Grevillea concinna was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. The specific epithet means "neat, pretty or elegant".In 1986, Donald McGillivray described two subspecies in his book, New Names in and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Grevillea concinna subsp. concinna McGill. has silvery to cream-coloured or yellowish-green flowers with a bright red to pink style;Grevillea concinna R.Br. subsp. lemanniana has lemony-green flowers, later orange-brown, and a bright red style.