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Grevillea pilulifera (Lindl.) Druce
Woolly-flowered Grevillea

Reference
Rep.Bot.Exch.Club Brit.Isles 4:625 (1917)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched, erect or spreading shrub, 0.2-1 m high. Fl. white, Apr to Dec (mainly Jul-Oct). Lateritic or granitic gravels. Hillsides, ridges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 September 1999
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 3-50 mm long, 1-10 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins recurved or revolute. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 6-12 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 4.5-7 mm long, white or yellow, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Armadale, Belmont, Beverley, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Bunbury, Capel, Chittering, Cranbrook, Dandaragan, Dardanup, Donnybrook-Balingup, Dumbleyung, Gingin, Goomalling, Gosnells, Harvey, Kalamunda, Kojonup, Lake Grace, Moora, Mundaring, Murray, Narrogin, Northam, Perth, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Quairading, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Tammin, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wandering, Waroona, West Arthur, Williams, Woodanilling, York.