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Grevillea murex McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 10 (1986)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched, spreading shrub, 1-2.5 m high. Fl. cream-white/cream-yellow, Aug to Oct. Yellow, brown or red sand, clay loam.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 3-6(-9) mm long, glabrous, once divided, tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 2-5 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 axillary or terminal, green, white or cream; pedicels 1.5-3 mm long. Perianth 2.5-3.5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous or hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 7-10 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-13 mm long. Flowers in July, August, September or October. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt.
IBRA Subregions
Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Mingenew, Morawa, Three Springs.