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Grevillea nematophylla subsp. planicosta Makinson

Reference
Fl.Australia 17A:505 (2000)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 1-3 m high. Fl. cream, Dec.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 February 2001

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 65-100 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, pinnately divided, entire or divided to the midrib; lobes 40-300 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, white, cream or pink; pedicels 0.5 mm long. Perianth 3-4.5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-9 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 13-24 mm long. Flowers in December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO) or Nullarbor (NUL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor.
IBRA Subregions
Carlisle, Central, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Shield.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Laverton, Menzies.