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Grevillea huegelii Meisn.

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 1:543 (1845)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect to prostrate shrub, 0.3-3(-4) m high, up to 4 m wide. Fl. pink-red/cream-yellow, Jan to Mar or Jun or Aug to Dec. Sandy to clay, often lateritic or calcareous soils.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-60 mm long, hairy or glabrous, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-40 mm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, the margins revolute, exposing the lower surface of the leaf blade or enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, yellow, orange or red; pedicels 6-10 mm long. Perianth 17-22 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 5-10 mm long; pistil 19.5-28.5 mm long, yellow or red, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-12 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Mardabilla, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Recherche, Shield, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Beverley, Bruce Rock, Coolgardie, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cunderdin, Dalwallinu, Dowerin, Dumbleyung, Dundas, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Jerramungup, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Kent, Kondinin, Koorda, Kulin, Lake Grace, Merredin, Moora, Mount Marshall, Narembeen, Narrogin, Northam, Nungarin, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Tammin, Trayning, Wagin, Westonia, Wickepin, Wongan-Ballidu, Wyalkatchem, Yilgarn.