Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Grevillea nematophylla
Conservation status in NSW:
Extinct
Profile last updated:
19 Dec 2023
Description
Grevillae nematophylla, also known as the Silver-leaved Water Tree, is a shrub, 2–6 m high. The branchlets are not glaucous. Leaves are simple and 55–300 mm long overall. Leaf blade is 0.5–3 mm wide, dissected or undissected, subterete or flat, linear, subpinnatisect and not further divided. Leaf lobes 40–300 mm long, 0.5–4 mm wide. Margins are entire and flat.
The inflorescence terminal is a raceme. Flowers are white, cream or pink and very irregular. Pedicel is 0.5–3 mm long. Perianth is 3–4.5 mm long, glabrous or simple-hairy and 4 -partite. The lobes are all free. It has 4 stamens. Pistil is 5–15 mm long and stipitate. The stipe is 0.5–2 mm long. The ovary is glabrous. Styles are glabrous and white or cream coloured. The pollen presenter is conical.
Fruit is rugose, ellipsoidal, glabrous and 13–24 mm long.
Distribution
The Silver-leaved Water Tree is presumed to be extinct within NSW. Its current distribution includes Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Habitat and ecology
- The Silver-leaved Water Tree grows in various habitats including Acacia (Mulga) or Eucalyptus woodland, tall shrubland or bluebush and saltbush plains. It prefers low-lying or swampy sites along watercourses in clay to sandy loam soil, sometimes over limestone, laterite or ironstone.
- Flowering time is November or December.
- The species regenerates from seed.
Recovery strategies
A Saving Our Species conservation project is currently being developed for this species and will be available soon. For information on how you can contribute to this species' recovery, see the Activities to assist this species section below.
Activities to assist this species
- No conservation management actions are currently identified for NSW.
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