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Grevillea decipiens McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 4 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched shrub, 0.5-1.6 m high. Fl. red, May to Aug. Sand, sandy clay.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 60-90 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial 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, orange or red; pedicels 4-5 mm long. Perianth 10-12 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 16-20 mm long, orange or red, pollen presenter lateral or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-11.5 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Recherche, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Gnowangerup, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.