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Grevillea diversifolia Meisn. subsp. diversifolia

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect to spreading shrub, 1-6 m high. Fl. yellow-green/cream-white, Apr or Jun or Aug to Dec. Loam, gravel, lateritic soils. Often along watercourses.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 25-80 mm long, 6-12 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire; lobes 3-15 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, the margins recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 3-6 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1.5 mm long; pistil 5-8 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Donnybrook-Balingup, Gosnells, Harvey, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Murray, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Wandering, Waroona.