Citation: Smith in Rees, Cyclop. 10 (1808).

Synonymy: C. sieberi Fenzl in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 23 (1837); C. sieberi Fenzl var. angustifolia Fenzl, Enum. Pl. Hügel 23 (1837); C. sieberi Fenzl var. latifolia Fenzl, Enum. Pl. Hügel 23 (1837).

Common name: Bitter cryptandra.

Description:
Low shrub, less than 1 m high, with rigid intricate branches; branchlets stellate-hoary, often ending in spines; leaves 2-6 mm long, variable, from oblanceolate, flat, less than 3 mm wide with slightly recurved margins (in the eastern States) to terete, less than 1 mm wide with closely revolute margins.

Flowers subsessile in loose few-flowered clusters or short leafy spikes; flower broadly campanulate, 3-6 mm long, silky with mostly simple hairs; brown bracts broad, obtuse, covering only the short turbinate adnate base of the floral tube; floral tube 1 to several times as long as the sepals.

capsule attached to the base of the floral tube only.

Published illustration: Curtis (1975) Students flora of Tasmania 1:113.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Flowers crowded at the ends of branchlets; spikes 10-20-flowered	var. floribunda 1b.
1. Flowers not so crowded; spikes 2- or 3-flowered or flowers solitary
2. Flowers not solitary, less than 5 mm long; floral tube more or less equal to the sepals	var. amara 1a.
2. Flowers usually solitary, 5-6 mm long; floral tube several times longer than the sepals	var. longiflora 1c.

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