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Grevillea uncinulata Diels
Hook-leaf Grevillea

Reference
Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 35:152-153 (1904)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, open shrub, 0.15-1 m high. Fl. white-cream-yellow, May to Dec. Sandy to gravelly lateritic soils.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 September 1999

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.30-0.60 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 5-20 mm long, 1 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, the margins revolute, enclosing the lower surface of the leaf blade, forming a single groove. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white or cream; pedicels 6-10 mm long. Perianth 3-4 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, hairy, simple-hairy; ovary hairy, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-9 mm long, white or cream, pollen presenter lateral, style hairy. Follicles hairy, not viscid, dehiscent, 8-13 mm long. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Eastern Goldfield, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Lesueur Sandplain, Merredin, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Carnamah, Coolgardie, Coorow, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Cunderdin, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Dowerin, Dumbleyung, Gnowangerup, Goomalling, Katanning, Kellerberrin, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narembeen, Narrogin, Northam, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, Tammin, Victoria Plains, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Wongan-Ballidu, Woodanilling, Wyalkatchem, York.