Grevillea sericea is a shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...

 endemic to New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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Description

It grows as a shrub from half a metres to two metres tall. It has angular, ridged branchlets and oval shaped leaves one to five centimetres long and two to nine millimetres wide.long, straight leaves from three to twelve centimetres long, and one to five millimetres wide. Flowers are pink; as with other Grevillea species, they occur in an inflorescence

Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...

 of many flowers.

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described in James Edward Smith

James Edward Smith

Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...

's 1793 A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland

A specimen of the botany of New Holland

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as Embothrium sericeum var. minor. In 1810, Robert Brown

Robert Brown (botanist)

Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...

 transferred it into Grevillea as G. sericea.

Other synonyms include:

• Grevillea riparia R.Br.
• Grevillea stricta R.Br.
• Lysanthe sericea (Sm.) Knight

Two subspecies are recognised: G. sericea subsp. riparia and G. sericea subsp. sericea.

The species sometimes hybridises with G. diffusa subsp. diffusa and G. linearifolia

Grevillea linearifolia

Grevillea linearifolia is a shrub endemic to New South Wales, Australia.-Description:It grows as an upright, open shrub from one to two or sometimes three metres high. It has angular, ridged branchlets and long, straight leaves from three to eleven centimetres long, and one to five millimetres...

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Distribution and habitat

The species is widespread in New South Wales

New South Wales

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, occurring from south of Sydney

Sydney

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 inland to Mudgee and north to Toronto

Toronto, New South Wales

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 and Wyee

Wyee, New South Wales

Wyee is a small town in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia, in the City of Lake Macquarie. It is near the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and has a station on the CityRail Newcastle and Central Coast railway line. It had a population of 1,487 in 2001...

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