Grevillea, Proteaceae : a taxonomic revision
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Grevillea, Proteaceae : a taxonomic revision
（Miegunyah Press series, no. 9）
Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-462) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Grevillea" is the third-largest Australian flowering-plant genus, with over 250 species occurring in nearly all parts of the continent, and a few species extending to Indonesia, New Guinea and New Caledonia. The genus is varied and many species have beautiful or spectacular flowers, ranging from the delicate white of (the almost extinct) G. "scapigera" to the vibrant red of the tropical G. "dryandri". The silky oak, G. "robusta", is a sought-after cabinet timber, and is an increasingly important agroforestry tree in many developing countries. Grevillea are also popular in horticulture; in addition to the wild species, hundreds of artifical hybrids and cultivars have been developed. This book claims to be first definitive scientific survey of "Grevillea" for over a hundred years and aims to fill a major gap in the scientific literature on Australia's flora. The characteristics of all species are listed in detail, and 53 new species and 34 new subspecies are fully treated for the first time. There are notes on distribution and ecology, and all previous uses of names in "Grevillea" are presented in a comprehensive review of their status.
Features include the "Identification Key", a convenient step-by-step way to identify any wild species. The arrangements of the key, and the accompanying diagrams and glossary, make it suitable for specialist and interested amateur alike. A forester by training, Don McGillivray became interested in plant taxonomy and transferred in 1964 to the national Herbarium of New South Wales at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, where he worked extensively on Proteaceae, among other plant families. Bob Makinson, the editor and compiler of this text, has worked on the taxonomy of Grevillea, among other groups, since 1981. He is currently Curator of the Herbarium at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Systematic treatment: Morphology and descriptive characters
- Method for preparing descriptions
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Generic descriptions
- Key to the species
- Descriptions of species
- Species 1-47: Grevillea pteridifolia and related species
- Species 31-43: Grevillea aquifolium group
- Species 48-52: Grevillea bipinnatifida and related species
- Species 53-68: Small groups of mostly tropical species, including the non-Australian species
- Species 69-82: Grevillea parallela and related species
- Species 78-82: Grevillea mimosoides group
- Species 83-107: Grevillea anethifolia, Grevillea trifida and related species
- Species 96-107: Grevillea "section Manglesia"
- supplement to species 96-107: specimens of Grevillea "section Manglesia" unassignable to species
- Species 108-110: Grevillea stenbotrya and related species
- Species 111-126: Grevillea angulata and related species
- Species 127-137: Miscellaneous species of tropical affinities
- Species 138-145: Grevillea longistyla and related species
- Species 146-153: Grevillea oncogyne and related species
- Species 154-157: Grevillea thelemanniana and related species
- Species 158, 159: Two ungrouped species
- Species 160-164: Grevillea hakeoides and related species
- Species 165-230: Grevillea floribunda, Grevillea sericea and related species
- Species 215-217: Grevillea sericea, Grevillea linearifolia, Grevillea Australis
- Species 231-243: Miscellaneous tropical and south-western species of undetermined affinities
- Species 244-246: Grevillea endlicheriana and related species
- Species 247-249: Grevillea petrophiloides and related species
- Species 250-253: Grevillea pulchella and related species. Part 2 Nomenclature: Accepted names and synonyms
- Names of uncertain application
- Excluded names.
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