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Grevillea wickhamii Meisn. subsp. wickhamii

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or sometimes spreading shrub or tree, 1-3 m high. Fl. red/pink/orange, May to Aug or Oct. Soils on sandstone or quartzite. Rocky hills, cliffs or ridges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 28 June 2006

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-90 mm long, 25-35 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or cauline, yellow or red; pedicels 2-9 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-3 mm long; pistil 6-8 mm long, yellow, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in April, May, June, July or August. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK), Central Kimberley (CK) or Dampierland (DL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzroy Trough, McLarty, Mitchell, Pentecost, Pindanland.
IMCRA Regions
Kimberley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.