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Grevillea tripartita Meisn. subsp. tripartita

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

Erect, spreading shrub, 0.8-1.3 m high, distinguished from Grevillea tripartita subsp. macrostylis on limited foliar features. Fl. red-orange, May to Dec. White sand, gravelly loam, sand or clay over laterite. Gentle slopes, near small salt lakes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 December 2000
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-50 mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-20 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, orange or red; pedicels (7-)8-10 mm long. Perianth 15-20 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, glandular-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-3 mm long; pistil 40-45 mm long, orange or red, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 12-18 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Jerramungup, Kent, Lake Grace, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.