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Grevillea leptobotrys Meisn.

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 2:256-257 (1848)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Sprawling, prostrate or spreading, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. pink, Jan or Jun to Jul or Sep to Dec. Sandy, gravelly, loamy or clayey soils on laterite or granite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.1-0.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-290 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 20-50 mm long, 10-20 mm wide, the margins recurved or revolute, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade or enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, pink; pedicels 3-8 mm long. Perianth 2-3 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous or hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1.5 mm long; pistil 3-5 mm long, pink, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-14 mm long. Flowers in October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Brookton, Busselton, Collie, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Kojonup, Manjimup, Narrogin, Pingelly, Wandering, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, York.