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Grevillea refracta subsp. glandulifera Olde & Marriott

Reference
Grevillea 1:178 (1994)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub or tree, 1.2-6 m high. Fl. red-orange/yellow/pink, Apr to Sep. Sand. Sandstone outcrops, cliffs & plateaus.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 15 August 1995

Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 2-6 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 120-150 mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 40-130 mm long, 5-15 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, yellow, orange or red; pedicels 5-8 mm long. Perianth 10-15 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-3 mm long; pistil 18-22 mm long, yellow, pollen presenter lateral or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 18-31 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August or September. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Victoria Bonaparte (VB) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Keep.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wyndham-East Kimberley.