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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] |
Spyridium Eriocephalum
''Spyridium eriocephalum'', commonly known as heath spyridium or heath dustymiller, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with linear leaves, and heads of white or cream-coloured, woolly-hairy flowers with brown bracts at the base. Description ''Spyridium eriocephalum'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are linear, long and wide with linear brown stipules long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous, the lower surface obscured by the down-rolled edges of the leaves. The heads of flowers are wide, arranged on the ends of branches with up to three floral leaves and several brown papery bracts at the base. The flowers are long, white or cream-coloured and covered with woolly white hairs. Flowering mostly occurs from August to November. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Bifidum
''Spyridium bifidum'', commonly known as forked spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely softly-hairy young stems, wedge-shaped to linear leaves sometimes with a two-lobed tip, and densely woolly heads of white-velvety flowers. Description ''Spyridium bifidum'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its young stems densely covered with simple and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are wedge-shaped to linear, long and wide on a petiole long. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, the tip is sometimes forked with two lobes, both surfaces are covered with soft, star-shaped hairs, and there are triangular to narrowly egg-shaped stipules at the base. The more or less spherical heads of "flowers" are wide, the individual flowers more or less sessile and silky-hairy. Each head is surrounded by 4 or 5 velvety, white leaves, each more or less divided into two. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Burragorang
''Spyridium burragorang'', is a flowering shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. It has dense clusters of whitish flowers at the end of branches, alternate leaves and is endemic to New South Wales. Description ''Spyridium burragorang'' is a spreading, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of . The new growth stems are thickly covered with short, grey to yellowish star-shaped hairs intermixed with long, curved or zig-zag simple hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, upper surface dark green, lower surface densely covered in short, soft, greyish star-shaped hairs, occasionally sparingly with more or less flattened hairs along the veins, midrib and leaf edges. The leaf base is wedge-shaped to rounded, apex blunt to rounded, minutely pointed or straight to curved, and the petiole long. The inflorescence is a terminal cluster or a loose grouping of 30-50 flowers with 2 to 4 oval to elliptic, whitish floral leaves. The white or cream flowers have five petals long, hy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Coactilifolium
''Spyridium coactilifolium'', commonly known as butterfly spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It has white-velvety flowers and oval shaped leaves that are thickly covered in soft hairs. Description ''Spyridium coactilifolium'' is a small perennial shrub with rusty-coloured short, matted, dense hairs on the branches. The leaves are oval to egg-shaped, rounded at the base, blunt and notched at the apex, long and densely covered with soft, star-shaped hairs. The flower petals are velvety-white, usually 4 or 5, entire or notched at the apex and about long. The bracts are silky, brown, and egg-shaped with small hairs on the margins. Flowering occurs from December to February and the fruit is a brown capsule, egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base, hard, thin, brittle, smooth except near the base. Taxonomy and naming ''Spyridium coactilifolium'' was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reisseck and the description was published in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Cinereum
''Spyridium cinereum'', commonly known as tiny spiridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying shrub with heart-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and heads of whitish, shaggy-hairy flowers with brown bracts at the base of the heads. Description ''Spyridium cinereum'' is a low-lying shrub or subshrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a small point in the centre of the notch. Both surfaces of the leaves are woolly-hairy, especially the upper surface, and the edges of the leaves are rolled under. The heads of flowers are arranged on the ends of branches, each with a leaf and several brown bracts at the base, the head in flattish umbels about in diameter. The sepals are about long, the petals whitish, long and shaggy-hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from October to January a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Daltonii
''Spyridium daltonii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It is a shrub with softly-hairy branchlets, linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and small groups of hairy, yellowish flowers. Description ''Spyridium daltonii'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets covered with a soft layer of star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, mostly long and about wide with stipules long at the base. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, the tip is sharply-pointed, the upper surface is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with star-shaped hairs. The heads of flowers arranged on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils and are up to about in diameter with bracts at the base, the individual flowers more or less sessile, yellowish and densely hairy. The sepals are long and the petals about long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a capsule about l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Coalitum
''Spyridium coalitum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with softly-hairy young stems, oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves, and head of white to cream-coloured flowers. Description ''Spyridium coalitum'' is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its young stems softly-hairy with brownish, simple and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are oblong to narrowly elliptic, mostly long and wide on a petiole long with reddish-brown stipules the base. The upper surface of the leaves is greyish-green and the lower surface is densely hairy. The heads of flowers are in diameter with floral leaves at the base, the individual flowers sessile, white to cream-coloured and sparsely hairy. The sepals are about long and the petals long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a capsule about long. Taxonomy ''Spyridium coalitum'' was first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Buxifolium
''Spyridium buxifolium'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and heads of white, softly-hairy flowers with brown bracts at the base of the heads. Description ''Spyridium buxifolium'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide with linear brown stipules long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is dark green and the lower surfaces in usually covered with greyish, woolly hairs. The heads of flowers are arranged on the ends of branches and are wide with brown bracts at the base of the heads. The flowers are long and covered with soft, white hairs. Flowering mostly occurs in winter and spring. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl who gave it the name ''Cryptandra buxifolia'' in Stephan Endlicher's ''Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Fontis-woodii
''Spyridium fontis-woodii'', commonly known as Woods Well spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to a small area of Coorong National Park in South Australia. It is a slender shrub with softly-hairy young stems, broadly egg-shaped to broadly heart-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and head of white to cream-coloured flowers. Description ''Spyridium fontis-woodii'' is a slender shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its young stems softly-hairy with rust-coloured or greyish, simple and star-shaped hairs. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped to broadly heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long with brown, egg-shaped stipules long at the base. The leaves are covered with white to greyish hairs, densely so on the lower surface. The heads of flowers are in diameter with 4 or 5 floral leaves at the base, the individual flowers densely packed, sessile, and white to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Cordatum
''Spyridium cordatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate, straggling or ascending shrub with leathery, broadly heart-shaped leaves with a notched tip, long with woolly, white or rust-coloured hairs on the lower side. The heads of flowers are wide with two to four floral leaves at the base. The sepals are up to long the petal tube shaggy-hairy with more or less glabrous lobes. The species was first formally described in 1858 by Nikolai Turczaninow, who gave it the name ''Cryptandra cordata'' in the ''Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou''. In 1863, George Bentham changed the name to ''Spyridium cordatum'' in ''Flora Australiensis''. The specific epithet (''cordatum'') means "heart-shaped", referring to the leaves. ''Spyridium cordatum'' mainly grows in gravelly, stony or rocky places in mallee and occurs from near Lake King to the Cape Arid National Park i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridium Erymnocladum
''Spyridium erymnocladum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a low, woody shrub with linear leaves, and heads of about seven woolly-hairy flowers. Description ''Spyridium erymnocladum'' is a woody shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its branchlets and green parts covered with erect, straight or wavy hairs. Its leaves are linear, long and wide with the edges rolled under, and dark brown, overlapping stipules long at the base. The flowers are borne in heads of about seven and are covered with erect hairs, each flower on a pedicel about long. The floral tube is long, the sepals long and the petals long. Taxonomy ''Spyridium erymnocladum'' was first formally described in 1995 by William Robert Barker in the ''Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens'' from specimens collected near Karkarooka between Kielpa and Rudall in 1993. The specific epithet (''erymnocladum'') means "fenced branch", referring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
