Grevillea kirkalocka

Grevillea kirkalocka is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with divided leaves with sharply-pointed linear lobes and clusters of red flowers.

Description

Grevillea kirkalocka is a low, spreading shrub that typically grows to high and wide and has arching branches. Its leaves are divided, wide and about wide in outline, with three to five leaflets usually divided again, the end lobes linear, long, long and sharply pointed. The flowers are arranged in upper leaf axils or on the ends of branches in branched clusters, each long. The clusters are on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long, the flowers red, the pistil about long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is an egg-shaped follicle long.

Taxonomy

Grevillea kirkalocka was first formally described in 2002 by Peter M. Olde and Neil R. Marriott in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected on Kirkalocka Station in 1995.
The specific epithet refers to the type location, and as a "mark of respect for the proprietors who have a progressive conservation ethic".

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows on sandheath and is only known from within of the type location in the Murchison bioregion of inland Western Australia.

Conservation status

Grevillea kirkalocka is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.