Spyridium coactilifolium
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| Spyridium coactilifolium | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Spyridium |
| Species: | S. coactilifolium |
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| Spyridium coactilifolium | |
Spyridium coactilifolium, commonly known as butterfly spyridium,[2] 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.
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, 6–15 mm (0.24–0.59 in) 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 3 mm (0.12 in) 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.[2]
Taxonomy and naming
Spyridium coactilifolium was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reisseck and the description was published in Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde.[3][4]