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Grevillea stenobotrya F.Muell.

Reference
Fragm. (Mueller) 9:3 (1875)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or spreading shrub or tree, (1-)2-4(-6) m high. Fl. cream-white/yellow, Apr to Nov. Red sand. Sand dunes.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 3-7 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 60-280 mm long, 0.5-2.5 mm wide, hairy, on the abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, entire or divided to the midrib; lobes 60-120 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a groove either side of the midvein. Inflorescences terminal, green, white or cream; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Perianth 3-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1.5 mm long; pistil 6-10 mm long, white, pollen presenter oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 13-16 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the Northern (N), Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Tanami (TAN), Pilbara (PIL), Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Gibson Desert (GD), Central Ranges (CR), Murchison (MUR), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Nullarbor (NUL), Dampierland (DL) or Geraldton Sandplains (GS) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Nullarbor, Pilbara, Tanami, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Ashburton, Augustus, Cape Range, Carlisle, Carnegie, Central, Chichester, Dune Field, Eastern Murchison, Edel, Hamersley, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, Maralinga, McLarty, Nullarbor Plain, Pindanland, Roebourne, Rudall, Shield, Tanami Desert, Trainor, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
IMCRA Regions
Shark Bay.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Broome, Carnarvon, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Shark Bay, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna.