Spyridium polycephalum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1 m (1 ft 0 in – 3 ft 3 in) and has white to cream-coloured flowers from April to November. It grows in heathlands and shrublands on coastal dunes, rocky hillsides and plains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.[2]
| Spyridium polycephalum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Spyridium |
| Species: | S. majoranifolium
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| Binomial name | |
| Spyridium majoranifolium | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Trymalium polycephalum Turcz. | |
This spyridium was first formally described in 1858 by Nikolai Turczaninow, who gave it the name Trimalium polycephalum in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond.[3][4] In 1995, Barbara Lynette Rye changed the name to Spyridium polycephalum in the journal Nuytsia.[5][6] The specific epithet (polycephalum) means "many-headed".[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Spyridium polycephalum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ "Spyridium polycephalum". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ "Trimalium polycephalum". APNI. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ Turczaninow, Nikolai (1858). "Animadversiones in secundam partem herbarii Turczaninow, nunc Universitatis Caesareae Charkowiensis". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 31 (1): 460. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ "Spyridium polycephalum". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ Rye, Barbara L. (1995). "New and priority taxa in the genera Spyridium and Trymalium (Rhamnaceae) of Western Australia". Nuytsia. 10 (1): 128. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 281. ISBN 9780958034180.