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Grevillea synapheae subsp. latiloba (Meisn.) Makinson

Reference
Fl.Australia 17A:505 (2000)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Mounded to spreading or erect shrub, to 1.5 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, Aug to Oct. Sand, gravel.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 6 February 2001

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 50-120 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, shallowly divided or deeply divided; lobes 5-25 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, the margins flat or recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 2 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 4-6 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chittering, Dandaragan, Gingin, Mundaring, Swan, Toodyay, Victoria Plains.