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Grevillea dimidiata F.Muell.
Caustic Bush

Reference
Fragm. (Mueller) 3:146 (1863)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small tree or shrub (single-stemmed), 2-6(-12) m high. Fl. white-cream, May to Sep. Sandy soils over basalt, limestone or laterite. Plains, rocky outcrops, rocky sites, watercourse banks.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 August 1995

Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 2-6 m high; branchlets glabrous, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 90-220 mm long, 30-55 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, white or cream; pedicels 3-4 mm long. Perianth 9-11 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 4-7 mm long; pistil 12-21 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, viscid, dehiscent, 16-23 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Central Kimberley (CK) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Hart, Keep, Mitchell, Pentecost, Purnululu, South Kimberley Interzone.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.