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Grevillea acacioides McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 1 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, much-branched shrub, 1-2.2 m high. Fl. white-cream-green, May to Sep (mainly Jul-Sep). Red or yellow sand, gravelly loam over granite, laterite. Sandplains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 September 1999
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-85 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, hairy, the hairs straight; lamina subterete, more or less the same width throughout, entire. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, green or white; pedicels 5-7 mm long. Perianth 6-8 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 9-12.5 mm long, white, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-13 mm long. Flowers in May, July, August or September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Merredin, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Dalwallinu, Dundas, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Laverton, Leonora, Menzies, Merredin, Mount Magnet, Mukinbudin, Narembeen, Perenjori, Ravensthorpe, Sandstone, Westonia, Wiluna, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.