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Grevillea latifolia C.A.Gardner

Reference
W.Australia Forests Dept.Bull. 32:43 (1923)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Single- to many-stemmed, lignotuberous shrub, 0.6-2.5(-4) m high. Fl. red/pink/yellow, Mar to Apr or Jun to Sep or Dec. Sandy soils on sandstone, laterite or quartzite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 70-160 mm long, 70-135 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, red or pink; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Perianth 12-15 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-4 mm long; pistil 12-17 mm long, white, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 16-19 mm long. Flowers in March, April, May, June, July, August or September. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK) or Central Kimberley (CK) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Northern Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Mitchell, Pentecost.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.