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Grevillea pyramidalis R.Br. subsp. pyramidalis

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

Tree or shrub, 2-6 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, May to Jul. Sand, gravelly loam, skeletal sandy soils on sandstone, laterite, granite.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 February 2001
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Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 2-6 m high; branchlets glabrous, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 120-410 mm long, 5-20 mm wide, glabrous, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 50-290 mm long, 7-21 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long. Perianth 3.5-5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-3 mm long; pistil 5-7 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 18-23 mm long. Flowers in May, June or July. Occurs in the Northern (N) or Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Pilbara (PIL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Dampierland (DL) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Pilbara, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzroy Trough, Keep, McLarty, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Pindanland, Roebourne.
IMCRA Regions
Kimberley, King Sound.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Karratha, Wyndham-East Kimberley.