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Grevillea spinosissima McGill.

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

Very spiny, irregularly branched shrub, (0.3-)0.6-1.5 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, Jan or Jun or Sep to Nov. Sand, sandy loam with lateritic gravel, clay.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 16 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 7-20 mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, tripartitely divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 5-15 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 8-12 mm long. Perianth 3-5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 3-4 mm long, white, pollen presenter conical, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 7-8 mm long. Flowers in June, July, August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Coorow, Dowerin, Quairading, Tammin, Three Springs, Toodyay, Wongan-Ballidu, York.