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Grevillea patentiloba subsp. platypoda (F.Muell.) Olde & Marriott

Reference
Grevillea 1:180 (1994)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading to straggling shrub, 0.3-3 m high. Fl. red/pink & yellow, Jun or Sep to Dec. Gravelly soils, laterite. Hillsides & hilltops.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-55 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the adaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, tripartitely divided, deeply divided; lobes 10-35 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, the margins recurved, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, red or pink; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Perianth 7-11 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy or simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 12-15 mm long, red or pink, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-14 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ravensthorpe.