Spyridium majoranifolium

{{Short description|Species of shrub}}

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|genus = Spyridium

|species = majoranifolium

|authority = (Fenzl) Rye{{cite web |title=Spyridium majoranifolium |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/141513 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=6 August 2022}}

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• Pomaderris commixta Steud.
• Pomaderris subretusa Steud.
• Spyridium spadiceum var. calvescens Benth. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
• Spyridium spadiceum var. majoranaefolium Benth. orth. var.
• Spyridium spadiceum var. majoranifolium (Fenzl) Benth.
• Trymalium majoranaefolium var. calvescens Reissek orth. var.
• Trymalium majoranaefolium var. velutinum Reissek orth. var.
• Trymalium majoranifolium Fenzl
• Trymalium majoranifolium var. calvescens Reissek
• Trymalium majoranifolium Fenzl var. majoranifolium
• Trymalium majoranifolium var. velutinum Reissek

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Spyridium majoranifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.1–1.6|m}} and has white to cream-coloured or yellow flowers from February to October. It grows on coastal dunes and stony hillsides in near-coastal areas in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.{{FloraBase|name=Spyridium majoranifolium|id=14355}}

This spyridium was first formally described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl who gave it the name Trymalium majoranifolium in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected by Ferdinand Bauer.{{cite web |title=Trymalium majoranifolium |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/23641 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=6 August 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Endlicher |first1=Stephan |editor-last1=Endlicher |editor-first1=Stephan |editor-last2=Fenzl |editor-first2=Eduard |editor-last3=Bentham |editor-first3=George |editor-last4=Schott |editor-first4=Heinrich Wilhelm |title=Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel |date=1837 |page=21 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.64405481&view=1up&seq=31 |access-date=6 August 2022}} In 1995, Barbara Lynette Rye changed the name to Spyridium majoranifolium in the journal Nuytsia.{{cite web |title=Spyridium majoranifolium |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/568393 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |accessdate=6 August 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=New and priority taxa in the genera Spyridium and Trymalium (Rhamnaceae) of Western Australia. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1995 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=121–122 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224896#page/127/mode/1up |access-date=6 August 2022}} The specific epithet (majoranifolium) means "marjoram-leaved".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=247 |edition=3rd}}