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Grevillea levis Olde & Marriott

Reference
Grevillea 1:175 (1994)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense, intricate shrub, (0.5-)1-2 m high. Fl. white-cream/white-pink, Aug to Oct. Yellow or red sand, sandy lateritic soils, granitic loam. Sandplains, granite rocks.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 2 October 1997

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets glabrous, with a glaucous bloom or not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 20-55 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-20 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white, cream or pink; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 3-5 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 6-9 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Coolgardie (COO) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Chapman Valley, Coolgardie, Coorow, Cunderdin, Dalwallinu, Goomalling, Greater Geraldton, Koorda, Mingenew, Moora, Morawa, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Murchison, Narembeen, Northampton, Perenjori, Quairading, Westonia, Wongan-Ballidu, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.