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Grevillea christineae McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 4 (1986)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, wiry shrub, 0.5-0.6 m high. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Sep. Clay loam, sandy clay, often moist.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 7 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, (10-)25-60 mm long, (1-)2-5 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white; pedicels 4-5.5 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-8 mm long, white or pink, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-15 mm long. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chittering, Goomalling, Moora, Northampton, Swan.