Family: Rhamnaceae
Spyridium eriocephalum
Citation:
Fenzl in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 24 (1837).
Synonymy: Cryptandra eriocephala (Fenzl)Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 1:72 (1855).
, Spyridium eriocephalum Common name: Heath spyridium.
Description:
Low slender shrub, young branches whitish with a mostly simple tomentum; leaves spreading, rigid, linear, 3-10 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, margins closely revolute, rarely broader with the undersurface visible, glabrous but often rough with minute tubercles above, mucro rigid and more or less reflexed.
Flowers in compound heads 5-7 mm diam., rather flat-topped, shortly stalked or sessile amongst the last leaves; floral leaves 1 or 2, similar to the stem leaves; brown bracts conspicuous; sepals hairy or glabrous and viscid (the whole head and upper leaves often appearing quite viscid); capsule blackish-brown, ovoid, crustaceous, c. 2.5 mm long, becoming glabrous.
fruitlets membranous, with no distinct suture.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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Biology:
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