Grevillea myosodes

Grevillea myosodes is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with elliptic leaves and branched clusters of cream-coloured flowers.

Description

Grevillea myosodes is a spreading shrub that typically grows to high and up to wide and forms a lignotuber. The leaves are obliquely elliptic, sometimes curved, long, wide and densely covered with fine silky hairs. The flowers are arranged in branched clusters, each branch cylindrical and long, the flowers cream-coloured to pale yellow, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from May to July and the fruit is a flattened, elliptic follicle long.

Taxonomy

Grevillea myosodes was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book New Names in Grevillea from specimens collected by in 1959. The specific epithet means "mouse odour" referring to the scent of the flowers.

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea grows in woodland or sharubland in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia and in the Top End of the Northern Territory.

Conservation status

Grevillea myosodes is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, but as "near threatened" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.