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Grevillea althoferorum Olde & Marriott

Reference
Nuytsia 9(2):295-298 (1993)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Compact, rounded, lignotuberous shrub, 0.25-0.5 m high. Fl. yellow-cream, Sep to Nov. Grey sand with gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 3 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.3-0.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 45-80 mm mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-15 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, yellow; pedicels 3-4 mm long. Perianth 5-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, sessile; pistil 6-6.5 mm long, cream or yellow, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles not viscid, dehiscent, NaN mm (?) long. Flowers in September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Declared Rare (R).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Chittering, Coorow, Swan.