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Grevillea diversifolia subsp. subtersericata McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 5 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect to spreading shrub, 1-3.5 m high. Fl. yellow-green/cream & white & red, May or Aug to Dec or Jan. White or grey sand, sandy loam. Low-lying, seasonally wet flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 20-70 mm long, 1.5-6 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, once divided or twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib, 2-4 mm wide, the margins recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 3-6 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1.5 mm long; pistil 6-8 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Warren (WAR) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Denmark, Manjimup, Plantagenet.