''Grevillea acacioides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with cylindrical leaves and erect groups of greenish-white or cream-coloured flowers.

Description

''Grevillea acacioides'' is an erect, multi-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are cylindrical, mostly long and wide with a sharply pointed tip. The flowers are arranged in erect groups on a flowering stem less than long at the end of branches and in leaf axils, the perianth greenish-white to cream-coloured and bearded inside and the

pistil Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ''pistils'' ...

long. Flowering mainly occurs from July to September and the fruit is a glabrous follicle mostly long.

Taxonomy

'' Grevillea acacioides'' was first formally described in 1986 by Donald McGillivray in his book ''New Names in ''Grevillea'' (Proteaceae)'', based on plant material collected from east of Sandstone by

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in 1931. The

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(''acacioides'') means "''

Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...

''-like".

Distribution and habitat

This grevillea usually grows in shrubland and is widespread between Cosmo Newbery, Wiluna, Perenjori, Ravensthorpe and

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in inland Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Grevillea acacioides'' is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is common and widespread, its population is stable and it does not face any known threats currently or in the near future.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5229663 acacioides Eudicots of Western Australia Proteales of Australia Plants described in 1986