Grevillea microstyla is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with divided or toothed leaves with dense clusters of crimson flowers that have a dull orange style.
Grevillea microstyla is shrub that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. Its leaves are egg-shaped to broadly oblong, long and wide in outline, but with 7 to 15 triangular teeth or lobes. The flowers are arranged in dense, more or less spherical clusters on a rachis long and are crimson with a dull orange style, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from December to June, and the fruit is an oblong follicle long.[1]
Grevillea microstyla was first formally described in 2000 by Matthew Barrett and Robert Makinson in the Flora of Australia from specimens collected in 1998.[2] The specific epithet (microstyla) means "having a small style".[3]
This grevillea grows in grassy woodland in shallow valleys and below ridges in the western Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.
Grevillea microstyla is listed as"Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.[4]