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Grevillea acuaria Benth.

Reference
Fl.Austral. 5:421, 452 (1870)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Divaricately branched shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. red, Jan or Apr to Oct. Loam, clay loam, lateritic gravel or granite.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 3 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-20 mm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina subterete or flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, red; pedicels 4-5 mm long. Perianth 10-12 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-2 mm long; pistil 14-18 mm long, green or red, pollen presenter lateral or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-11 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Nullarbor (NUL), 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, Nullarbor.
IBRA Subregions
Central, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Eastern Murchison, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Mardabilla, Merredin, Nullarbor Plain, Shield, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Cunderdin, Dalwallinu, Dundas, Esperance, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Kent, Kondinin, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Laverton, Leonora, Menzies, Merredin, Mount Marshall, Mukinbudin, Narembeen, Nungarin, Ravensthorpe, Westonia, Wongan-Ballidu, Wyalkatchem, Yilgarn.