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Spyridium
''Spyridium'' is a genus of about thirty species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Spyridium'' are shrubs or subshrubs usually with small leaves, flowers usually in clusters of small composite heads, the individual flowers small and densely woolly-hairy, and the fruit a capsule. Species of ''Spyridium'' are found in all Australian states except Queensland. Description Plants in the genus ''Spyridium'' are shrubs or subshrubs, usually less than tall and have hairy branchlets. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches and are usually small, with papery brown stipules at the base. The flowers are small, bisexual, densely white woolly-hairy, sessile and usually borne in small composite heads with small brown bracts at the base, the heads themselves usually clustered in a corymbose cyme. There are five sepals, five petals and three carpels, and the fruit is a capsule with the remains of the sepals attac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Vexilliferum
''Spyridium vexilliferum'', commonly known as winged spyridium, or helicopter bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, low-lying to erect shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and dense heads of small white flowers. Description ''Spyridium vexilliferum'' is a low-lying to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has its branchlets densely covered with star-shaped, often rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, long and wide with narrow, brown stipules long at the base. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, the upper surface Wikt:glabrous, glabrous and shiny, the lower surface covered with whitish hairs or often obscured. The heads of Pseudanthium, "flowers" are about in diameter and shaggy-hairy surrounded by up to 4 egg-shaped or oblong, woolly-white floral leaves. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January. Taxonomy In 1834, Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
