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Grevillea mimosoides R.Br.

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:177 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Straggly erect shrub or tree, 2-10 m high. Fl. green-yellow/cream-white, Aug to Sep. Clay loam, loam or sandy soils on basalt, laterite or sandstone. Rocky hillsides, often associated with watercourses.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Trees, 2-10 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, with a glaucous bloom or not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 150-300 mm long, 12-45 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, white or yellow; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-13 mm long; pistil 5-9 mm long, white or yellow, pollen presenter conical or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 1-3 mm long. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Fitzroy Trough, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Purnululu.
IMCRA Regions
Kimberley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.