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Grevillea psilantha McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 12 (1986)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Much-branched shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. white-cream, Jun to Jul. Skeletal soils on sandstone. In rock crevices on the walls of gorges.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 80-130 mm long, 3-8 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, white; pedicels 4-5.5 mm long. Perianth 4-5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1-1.5 mm long; pistil 6-7.5 mm long, white, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-14 mm long. Flowers in April, May, June or July. Occurs in the Northern (N) Botanical Province(s), in the Ord-Victoria Plains (OVP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Ord Victoria Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Purnululu.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Halls Creek.