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Grevillea calcicola A.S.George

Reference
J.Roy.Soc.Western Australia 50:97 (1967)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small straggly tree or shrub (several-stemmed), to 4 m high. Fl. cream-white, May or Jul to Aug. Limestone hilltops.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 2-4 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 80-150 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 65-110 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, white or cream; pedicels 1.5-3 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-2 mm long; pistil 10-12 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter lateral, style glabrous. Follicles viscid, dehiscent, 21-27 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July or August. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Carnarvon (CAR) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon.
IBRA Subregions
Cape Range.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Exmouth.