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Grevillea costata A.S.George

Reference
Nuytsia 1:370-371 (1974)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched spreading shrub, 0.8-1.5 m high. Fl. white-cream, May or Jul to Sep. Alluvial sand, clay. In or near river beds among sandstone or granite rocks.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 7 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-40 mm long, 1 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; 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 axillary or terminal, white; pedicels 5-9 mm long. Perianth 3-5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 5-7 mm long, white or pink, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-11 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August or September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Carnarvon (CAR) or Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Edel, Geraldton Hills, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Northampton, Shark Bay.