Grevillea barklyana
F.Muell. ex Benth. Gully GrevilleaErect shrub or small tree to c. 10 m high. Leaves usually irregularly pinnatifid, occasionally some simple and entire, narrowly ovate to elliptic or obovate in outline, 5–27 cm long, 2.5–12 cm wide; divided leaves with 2–11 broad sub triangular to ovate simple lobes each 10–40 mm long; lower surface with a dense, close indumentum of curled hairs; margin slightly recurved or flat. Conflorescences terminal, erect or deflexed, simple, secund, 4–10 cm long; rachises tomentose; perianth off-white to dusky brown, outer surface subsericeous to tomentose, inner surface glabrous; pistil 18.5–28.5 mm long, ovary subsessile to clearly stipitate, subsericeous to subvillous, style pink to light red, glabrous, pollen-presenter oblique. Fruits subsericeous to tomentose, sometimes with purplish markings. Flowers Oct.–Dec.
GipP, CVU, HSF, Strz. Endemic in Western Gippsland, on tributaries of the Bunyip River, north of Labertouche. A recent collection from Ashbourne (near Woodend) from dry open forest, where known from a single plant close to the road, most likely represents an introduction. Grows on slopes of moist shaded gullies as a tall understorey species, in gravelly clay-loam soil.
The closely related New South Wales endemic Grevillea macleayana (McGill.) P.M. Olde & N.R. Marriott, was formerly included within G. barklyana (as subsp. macleayana McGill.); it has shorter, usually entire leaves, shorter conflorescences and floral bracts, and appressed ovary hairs.
Makinson, R.O. (1996). Grevillea. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 845–870. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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