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Grevillea pyramidalis subsp. leucadendron (R.Br.) Makinson

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

Small tree or shrub, 2-6 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, May to Jul. Loam.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 February 2001
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Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 2-6 m high; branchlets glabrous, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 150-300 mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 50-290 mm long, 1-8 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Perianth 3-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-3 mm long; pistil 5-7 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 18-23 mm long. Flowers in May, June or July. Occurs in the Northern (N) or Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Pilbara (PIL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Dampierland (DL) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Cape Range, Chichester, Fitzroy Trough, Fortescue, Hamersley, Hart, Keep, McLarty, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Pindanland, Purnululu, Roebourne, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert.
IMCRA Regions
Pilbara (nearshore), Pilbara (offshore).
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Karratha, Port Hedland, Wyndham-East Kimberley.