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Grevillea byrnesii McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 3 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, (2-)3-5.5 m high. Fl. orange/red-orange, May to Aug. Skeletal sandy soils over sandstone, red sand. Ridge tops or upper slopes, red sand dunes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 August 1995

Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 4-5.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 70-100 mm long, 35-55 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, orange; pedicels 7-9 mm long. Perianth 7-10 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-4 mm long; pistil 10-12 mm long, orange, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 17-24 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July or August. Occurs in the Northern (N) or Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Purnululu.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Halls Creek.