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Grevillea brachystachya Meisn.
Short-spiked Grevillea

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 2:254 (1848)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Moderately dense shrub, 0.6-2 m high. Fl. white-cream-green-yellow, Jun or Aug to Oct. Yellow sand, red loam, gravel. Sandplains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 August 1995
Image

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.8-2.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 50-100 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, glabrous; lamina 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 terminal, green or cream; pedicels 5-6 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous or hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 10-12 mm long, green, cream or pink, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 17-21 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL), Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Edel, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chapman Valley, Dalwallinu, Greater Geraldton, Moora, Northampton, Shark Bay.