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Grevillea metamorpha Makinson

Reference
Fl.Australia 17A:506 (2000)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect spindly shrub, ca 1.5 m high. Fl. white, Sep. White sand. Along creekline.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 2 October 1997

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 14-24 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, shallowly divided or divided to the midrib; lobes 1-4 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, white; pedicels 5-6 mm long. Perianth 2-3 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 3-6 mm long, white, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-10 mm long. Flowers in September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority One (P1).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coorow.