Grevillea thyrsoides is a small, spreading shrub which is endemic to an area in the Mid West and Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

Grevillea thyrsoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Grevillea
Species:	G. thyrsoides
Binomial name
Grevillea thyrsoides Meisn.

Description

It grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.7 m (1 ft 0 in to 2 ft 4 in) and is up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in width. It produces red flowers in late summer to early autumn and mid-winter to early spring (February to March and July to September in Australia.)[1][2][3]

Taxonomy

The species was formerly described in 1855 by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in the William Jackson Hooker work Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany[4] based on plant material collected by James Drummond.[1] There are two sub species:

• Grevillea thyrsoides subsp. pustulata Olde & Marriott
• Grevillea thyrsoides Meisn. subsp. thyrsoides[4]

Distribution

The shrub is found to around Eneabba in the north west to Coorow in the northeast and down to Watheroo in the south east to around Dandaragan in the south west where it is often found growing in sandy to sany gravelly soils often containing laterite.[2]

See also

• List of Grevillea species

References

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