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Grevillea petrophiloides subsp. magnifica McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 11 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub (with emergent flowering branches), to 4 m high. Fl. pink, Jun to Aug. Deep to skeletal granitic loams. Bases of granite outcrops or crevices.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 February 2001
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 2-4 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, with a glaucous bloom. Leaves alternate, 180-250 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 30-120 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, the margins recurved or revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, red or pink; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Perianth 8-10 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary hairy or glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 16-21.5 mm long, white, red or pink, pollen presenter conical, style hairy or glabrous. Follicles glandular hairy, viscid, dehiscent, 7-9 mm long. Flowers in June, July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Merredin, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Kellerberrin, Lake Grace, Quairading.