Grevillea squiresiae is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to a small area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.[1]

Grevillea squiresiae
Conservation status
Priority One — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Grevillea
Species:	G. squiresiae
Binomial name
Grevillea squiresiae Olde & Marriott

The single-stemmed shrub typically grows to a height of 1 metre (3.3 ft) and usually has a single stem. The shrub blooms from September to December producing an inflorescence with red flowers.[1]

Grevillea squiresiae was discovered by Mary Squire, a farmer and conservationist for whom it is named, in the Wheatbelt town of Mukinbudin. The species was originally described by the botanists Peter M. Olde and Neil R. Marriott in 2002 as a part of the work One new Banksia and two new Grevillea species (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae) from Western Australia as published in the journal Nuytsia. The specific epithet is correctly spelled squiresiae not squiresae as the name appeared in the original publication.[2]

It has a limited range in the north eastern Wheatbelt from around Nungarin in the south west up to around the Walyahmoning Nature Reserve in the north east. It is commonly situated on undulating slopes, hills and along road verges growing in sandy to sandy clay soils over laterite and containing laterite or ironstone gravel.[1]

See also

• List of Grevillea species

References