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Grevillea shuttleworthiana subsp. obovata (Benth.) Olde & Marriott

Reference
Grevillea 1:177 (1994)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.5-2.5 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Mar or Aug to Dec. Sand, sandy clay, loam, often with lateritic gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 16 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 8-30 mm long, 5-12 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, yellow; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.2-0.5 mm long; pistil 5-6 mm long, yellow, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 7-10 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), 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, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Mount Marshall, Narembeen, Ravensthorpe, Yilgarn.