| Dicotyledon | Literature for Grevillea robusta
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Proteaceae -- The Protea Family | Bibliography |
| Grevillea robusta | |
Common name(s): spider flower, `oka kilika, ha`iku ke`oke`o, he oak, silk, silver oak |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, commonly planted throughout tropical and subtropical areas, especially as an ornamental or in reforestation, often naturalized.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Trees 10-25(-40) m tall, trunk large in old trees; young branches rusty tomentose. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves fern-like, bipinnatifid into (4-)10-21 segments, these lanceolate or rarely linear, upper surface glabrous or sparsely appressed pubescent, lower surface brownish becoming whitish silky pubescent, margins entire or sometimes lobed, recurved. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers numerous in secund, paniculate inflorescences 7-12 cm long, pedicels slender, ca. 10 mm long, glabrous; calyx orange to golden yellow or golden brown, glabrous, the tube 6-9 mm long; ovary stipitate, glabrous; style ca. 1.5 cm long. |
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| Fruit |
Follicles oblique, boat-shaped, ca. 1.5 cm long, glabrous. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds circumwinged. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 20 |
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