Skip to main content

Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. Due to the rapidly approaching holiday season and associated agency and facility soft closures, along with the substantial work involved in data mapping, cleaning, and verification, the migration to the new collection management software is not expected to occur before 1 March 2026, when a further update will be provided. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 2 March 2026 +08:00.

Grevillea heliosperma R.Br.
Rock Grevillea

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:176 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small, spreading, sparingly branched, sometimes lignotuberous, tree or shrub, 2.5-8 m high. Fl. pink/red, Jan or Mar to Jul or Oct. Sandy clay, red loam, commonly on sandstone or laterite. Rocky hillsides, plateaus, other rocky sites.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 August 1995
Image

Scientific Description

Trees or Shrubs, 3-8 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 80-400 mm long, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 30-130 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, red or pink; pedicels 8-10 mm long. Perianth 10-14 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 9-12 mm long; pistil 35-40 mm long, red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 18-35 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August or September. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Central Kimberley (CK) or Dampierland (DL) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Darwin Coastal, Northern Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Hart, Keep, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Pindanland.
IMCRA Regions
Kimberley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.