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Grevillea scabrida C.A.Gardner

Reference
J.Roy.Soc.Western Australia 22:120 (1936)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Densely & irregularly branched shrub, 0.6-1.5 m high. Fl. green-white/green-yellow/white, Jul. Red clay loam, stony loam.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 15 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 10-60 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, more or less the same width throughout, entire, 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 yellow; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Perianth 4-5.5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-9 mm long, white or pink, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-11.5 mm long. Flowers in July. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Yalgoo (YAL) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Merredin, Tallering.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Perenjori, Yalgoo.