Prickly toothbrushes

Grevillea armigera

"Grevillea armigera" is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with deeply-lobed leaves, the lobes linear and sharply pointed, and grey, green or pale yellow flowers with black to maroon styles.
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Appearance

"Grevillea armigera" is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–3.5 m. Its leaves are 25–50 mm long and have five to eleven lobes, each usually further divided with three to five lobes, the end lobes linear, sharply-pointed, 2–25 mm long and 0.5–1.5 mm wide with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged along a rachis 50–90 mm long, and are grey, green or pale yellow with a black to blackish maroon style. The pistil is 18–23 mm long with a more or less sessile ovary. Flowering mainly occurs from June to February and the fruit is a follicle 11.5–14 mm long.

Habitat

Prickly toothbrushes grows in heath and shrubland from Buntine to near Dowerin in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic regions.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderProteales
FamilyProteaceae
GenusGrevillea
SpeciesG. armigera
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Australia