Skip to main content

Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. The project team is now conducting testing of the migrated data, and a further update will be provided by the end of the financial year (1 July). Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Wednesday, 1 July 2026 +08:00.

Advanced Search

Grevillea ceratocarpa Diels

Reference
Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 35:157 (1904)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, 0.4-1.2 m high. Fl. white-cream/yellow, Oct to Nov. Deep yellow sand. Sandplains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 7 August 1995

Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1.5 m high; branchlets hairy, not glaucous. Leaves alternate, 55-70 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, hairy, on the adaxial or abaxial surface, the hairs straight; lamina flat, widest around the middle or more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins flat. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, white; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 3-5 mm long; tepals all free after flower opens, glabrous; ovary glabrous, stipitate, the stipe 0.5-1 mm long; pistil 7-10 mm long, white, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Follicles glabrous, not viscid, dehiscent, 12-18 mm long. Flowers in August, September or October. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO) or Avon Wheatbelt (AW) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

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