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Grevillea velutinella McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 16 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 1.2-4 m high. Fl. yellow/yellow-cream-green, Mar or May to Jul. Skeletal soils on sandstone or quartzite. Rocky ridges & hillsides.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-3.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 50-120 mm long, 35-80 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary, terminal or cauline, green, cream or yellow; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Perianth 5-7 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 5-7 mm long, green, white, cream or yellow, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 14-20 mm long. Flowers in March, April, May, June or July. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Central Kimberley (CK) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Keep, Pentecost, Purnululu.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.