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Grevillea prasina McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 12 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading or straggly shrub, 1-2.5 m high. Fl. white-cream/cream-yellow-green, Mar to Jun or Nov. Skeletal soils on sandstone, quartzite, laterite or limestone. Rocky situations.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 30-85 mm long, 20-30 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, once divided, pinnately divided, shallowly divided, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, green, white, cream or yellow; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 6-9 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2.5-3 mm long; pistil 18-20 mm long, green or white, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-16 mm long. Flowers in March, April, May, June, July, August, September or October. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Central Kimberley (CK) or Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Victoria Bonaparte.
IBRA Subregions
Berkeley, Keep, Pentecost.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wyndham-East Kimberley.