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Grevillea wittweri McGill.

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

Moderately dense, much-branched, spreading shrub, 0.9-2.2 m high, up to 3 m wide. Fl. red & green, Jan or Mar or Sep to Nov. Sand. Sandplains, near salt lakes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 40-80 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 10-25 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, green or pink; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Perianth 6-8 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy or simple-hairy; ovary hairy, sessile or stipitate, the stipe 0.2-0.5 mm long; pistil 15-20 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glandular hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 12-14 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March, April, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.