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Grevillea tenuiflora (Lindl.) Meisn.
Tassel Grevillea

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 1:554-555 (1845)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, (0.2-)0.5-1.5 m high. Fl. white-cream-pink, Aug to Oct or Dec. Loam, sand or sandy clay with lateritic gravel.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 September 1999
Image

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 17-55 mm long, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib; lobes 3-10 mm long, 3-6 mm wide, the margins flat or recurved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white; pedicels 3-4 mm long. Perianth 4-6 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous or hairy, glandular-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-10 mm long, white or purple, pollen presenter conical, style hairy. Follicles glandular hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 9-11 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW) or Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Beverley, Boddington, Brookton, Cuballing, Narrogin, Pingelly, Wagin, Wandering, West Arthur, Williams, York.