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Grevillea agrifolia subsp. microcarpa (Olde & Marriott) Makinson

Reference
Fl.Australia 17A:494 (2000)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Bushy shrub or tree, 1-6 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, May to Aug. Skeletal sandy soils, gravel, sandstone. Rocky hillsides, ridges, outcrops.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 13 November 2000

Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 60-140 mm long, 20-40 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, green, white or cream; pedicels 2-4 mm long. Perianth 8-10 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 2-4 mm long; pistil 15-20 mm long, green or white, pollen presenter oblique, style hairy. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 12-15 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July or August. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK) or Victoria Bonaparte (VB) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Northern Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Mitchell.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wyndham-East Kimberley.