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Grevillea rigida Olde & Marriott subsp. rigida

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

Spreading shrub.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 15 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 2-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 25-55 mm mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs curled; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-18 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, the margins revolute, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade. Inflorescences terminal, cream or pink; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Perianth 7-9 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.2-0.5 mm long; pistil 18-25 mm long, orange or red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-15 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).