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Grevillea synapheae R.Br. subsp. synapheae

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

Prostrate to spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.2-0.6(-1.1) m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, Jul to Oct. Sand, gravel, laterite, granite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 February 2001
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 40-180 mm long, 1-6 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib; lobes 5-20 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, the margins flat or recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 4-6 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Beverley, Chittering, Gosnells, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Northam, Perth, Swan, Toodyay, York.