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Grevillea spinosa McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 14 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Very prickly shrub, 1-2 m high. Fl. green & purple, Mar or May to Sep or Nov. Sandstone. Rocky situations.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 16 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1.5-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 25-60 mm long, hairy, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 10-30 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, green or yellow; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Perianth 7-10 mm long; tepals some joined and some free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, sessile; pistil 15-20 mm long, orange, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 8.5-14 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August or September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) Botanical Province(s), in the Gascoyne (GAS), Little Sandy Desert (LSD) or Murchison (MUR) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Carnegie, Eastern Murchison, Trainor.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Wiluna.