Grevillea occidentalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaves and grey or off-white flowers.
Description
Grevillea occidentalis is a spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of or more. Its leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with the edges turned down or rolled under, usually enclosing most of the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in more or less spherical clusters of hairy grey to off-white and brown flowers, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to February and the fruit is a oval to oblong follicle long.<ref name=FB>{ { FloraBase|name=Grevillea occidentalis|id=2052}}</ref>
TaxonomyGrevillea occidentalis was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. The specific epithet (occidentalis'') means "western".
Distribution and habitat
This grevillea grows in heath and woodland between Kojonup, Walpole and Albany in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.
See also
List of Grevillea species
References
occidentalis
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Proteales of Australia
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1810