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Grevillea oligomera (McGill.) Olde & Marriott

Reference
Grevillea 1:179 (1994)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 1.2-2 m high. Fl. red/red & pink, May or Jul or Sep to Oct. Red or yellow sand, often with gravel. Sandplains, ironstone hills.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets glabrous, with a glaucous bloom or not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-110 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 25-90 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, the margins revolute. Inflorescences terminal, red or pink; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Perianth 8-10 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 12-15 mm long, red or pink, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles glandular hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 7 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Murchison (MUR) or Coolgardie (COO) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Southern Cross.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Leonora, Menzies.