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Grevillea scapigera A.S.George

Reference
Nuytsia 1:374 (1974)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Suckering, prostrate to weakly ascending shrub, 0.15-0.4 m high, up to 1.8 m wide. Fl. white/yellow-green, Feb or Oct to Nov. Sandy or gravelly lateritic soils.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 15 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy, with a glaucous bloom. Leaves alternate, 30-75 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-10 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, the margins flat. Inflorescences terminal, green or white; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 2-3.5 mm long; pistil 12-15 mm long, white, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in February, October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Merredin, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Brookton, Bruce Rock, Corrigin, Kondinin, Quairading.