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Grevillea myosodes McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 10 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading, lignotuberous shrub, 0.8-2.2 m high. Fl. cream-yellow, Feb or Jun to Jul. Sandy loam with gravel on quartzite, red sand. On plains or gentle slopes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 80-180 mm long, 20-30 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, cream; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long. Perianth 5-7 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 9-12 mm long, cream, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 19-35 mm long. Flowers in May, June or July. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK) or Central Kimberley (CK) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Darwin Coastal, Northern Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Mitchell, Pentecost.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek, Wyndham-East Kimberley.