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Grevillea hookeriana Meisn. subsp. hookeriana

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Upright, spreading shrub, 0.5-4 m high, to 4 m wide. Fl. yellow-green/red, Apr to Nov or Jan. Sand, loam, clay, gravel, laterite, granite, quartzite. Hilltops, gravel pits, road verges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 November 2000

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-90 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs curled; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, tripartitely divided, entire or divided to the midrib; lobes 25-40 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 terminal, green or yellow; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Perianth 6-8 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, sessile; pistil 18-21 mm long, black, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles hairy or glandular hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 12-14 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Brookton, Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Coorow, Corrigin, Cuballing, Cunderdin, Dowerin, Dumbleyung, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kellerberrin, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Moora, Morawa, Narembeen, Narrogin, Northam, Pingelly, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Tammin, Three Springs, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wickepin, Williams, Wongan-Ballidu, Woodanilling, Wyalkatchem.