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Grevillea didymobotrya Meisn. subsp. didymobotrya

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

Erect shrub, (0.3-)1-3(-5) m high, leaves subterete to linear. Fl. yellow-green/cream, Feb to Mar or Jun to Dec. Yellow, red orange-brown sand, gravel. Sandplains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-120 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina subterete, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, cream or yellow; pedicels 1-4 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.2-0.5 mm long; pistil 4-6 mm long, cream or yellow, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 5-8.5 mm long. Flowers in January, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Carnarvon (CAR), Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Carlisle, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Edel, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Mallee, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Chapman Valley, Coolgardie, Dalwallinu, Dowerin, Dundas, Esperance, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Kondinin, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Menzies, Merredin, Mingenew, Morawa, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Murchison, Narembeen, Northampton, Perenjori, Ravensthorpe, Sandstone, Shark Bay, Tammin, Trayning, Westonia, Wiluna, Wongan-Ballidu, Wyalkatchem, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.