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Grevillea eremophila (Diels) Olde & Marriott

Reference
Grevillea 1:176 (1994)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.5-2.5 m high. Fl. yellow/orange-yellow/cream-white, Aug or Oct. Yellow sand, sandy loam. Plains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 40-105 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white, cream or yellow; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-10 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 12-16 mm long. Flowers in September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Mallee, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Murchison, Merredin, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Dalwallinu, Dowerin, Kondinin, Koorda, Menzies, Merredin, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Perenjori, Westonia, Wongan-Ballidu, Yilgarn.