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Grevillea leptopoda McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 8 (1986)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading to erect shrub, 0.6-1.5 m high. Fl. white-cream, Aug to Sep. Loam & lateritic gravel, sand, clay.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-80 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 10-35 mm long, 1 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, white, cream or pink; pedicels 5-7 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 6-8 mm long, white, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-11 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Tallering.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Chapman Valley, Coorow, Dandaragan, Mingenew, Morawa, Northampton, Perenjori, Three Springs.