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Grevillea albiflora C.T.White
Family Proteaceae
Common name: White Spider Flower

Grevillea albiflora C.T.White APNI*

Description: Shrub or small tree 2–8 m high.

Leaves 8–30 cm long, usually pinnatisect with 3–9 lobes and lower lobes often 2–3-lobed or rarely leaves simple; lobes linear, 1–2 mm wide, margins revolute to midvein.

Inflorescences 8–25 cm long, with up to 5 cylindrical, velvety branches; flowers fragrant. Perianth white to creamy green, not dilated at base, villous with a velvety limb outside, pilose below the middle and glabrous above inside. Gynoecium 15–22 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style white to creamy green, villous in lowest third, pollen presenter oblique.

Follicle velvety.


Flowering: mainly spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows on sand ridges with Triodia or sandplains in red sand, north from Bourke.
NSW subdivisions: NWP
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.
AVH map***

Text by R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept: R.O. Makinson (2000)


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***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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