Grevillea leucopteris Meisn.
White Plume Grevillea
- Reference
- Hooker's J.Bot.Kew Gard.Misc. 7:76-77 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
- Name Status
- Current
Spreading, bushy shrub, 1-4(-5) m high. Fl. cream-white/cream-yellow, Jul or Sep to Oct or Dec. Grey, yellow or brown sand, sandy clay. Lateritic ridges, plains.
Scientific Description
Shrubs, 2-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 120-350 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 100-200 mm long, 1.5-6 mm wide, the margins 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, white or cream; pedicels 4-10 mm long. Perianth 5-7 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 4-7 mm long; pistil 25-30 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 20-24 mm long. Flowers in January, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain, Yalgoo.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Edel, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Perth.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Chapman Valley, Cockburn, Coorow, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Kalamunda, Northampton, Wanneroo.