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Grevillea tetrapleura McGill.

Reference
New Names Grevillea 15 (1986)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Low, spreading, dense, spiny shrub, 0.15-0.6(-0.9) m high, up to 1.5 m wide. Fl. pink-red, Jul to Sep. Sandy loam or sand on granite. Granite outcrops.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.1-0.9 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 15-50 mm long, 1 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire. Inflorescences axillary or cauline, pink; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 8-12 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 16-20 mm long, pink, pollen presenter lateral or oblique, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 10-13 mm long. Flowers in July, August or September. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie.
IBRA Subregions
Merredin, Southern Cross.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Mukinbudin, Yilgarn.