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Grevillea curviloba 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
Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
Name Status
Current

Prostrate to erect shrub, 0.1-2.5 m high. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Oct. Grey sand, sandy loam. Winter-wet heath.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 September 1999

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.2-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 15-35 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, tripartitely divided, shallowly divided, deeply divided or divided to the midrib; lobes 5-15 mm long, 1-5 mm wide, the margins recurved, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 7-9 mm long. Perianth 3-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 3-5 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Chittering, Gingin, Mundaring, Perth, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan.