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Grevillea amplexans subsp. adpressa (Olde & Marriott) Makinson

Reference
Fl.Australia 17A:506 (2000)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Non-lignotuberous, spreading shrub, 1-3 m high, to 1.5 m wide; branchlets and lower leaf surfaces hairy. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Oct. Yellow sand, loam. Dunes, road verge.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 November 2000

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, with a glaucous bloom or not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 8-15 mm long, 12-20 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest below the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 8-11 mm long. Perianth 3-4.5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 3-4 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-12 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority One (P1).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow, Moora, Three Springs.