''Spyridium oligocephalum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...

and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its leaves glabrous except when very young. There are large, papery, orange-brown stipules joined in pairs at their bases, at the base of the petiole. The flowers are arranged in head-like, condensed

cymes An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on ...

on the ends of branchlets. The sepals are about long and densely covered with hairs long. This species was first formally described in 1858 by Nikolai Turczaninow, who gave it the name ''Trimalium oligocephalum'' in the ''Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou''. In 1863, George Bentham changed the name to ''Spyridium oligocephalum'' in '' Flora Australiensis''. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''oligocephalum'') means "few-headed". ''Spyridium oligocephalum'' grows in sandy soil on sandplains in the Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia. It is listed as " Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15529586 oligocephalum Rosales of Australia Flora of Western Australia Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow Plants described in 1858