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Grevillea cagiana McGill.
Red Toothbrushes

Reference
New Names Grevillea 3 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or occasionally spreading, non-lignotuberous shrub, (0.8-)1.5-4(-6) m high. Fl. red/orange & green & cream, Jun to Dec or Jan to Mar. Sand over laterite or clay or deep sand, gravelly clay.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-4 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 65-120 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the abaxial surface, the hairs curled or straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 50-115 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, green, yellow, orange or pink; pedicels 1-2.5 mm long. Perianth 6-10 mm long; tepals fused (at least at base) after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 2-4 mm long; pistil 15-22 mm long, yellow, orange or red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 15-25 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the 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, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Brookton, Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Dumbleyung, Dundas, Esperance, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Narembeen, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Wickepin, Yilgarn.