Spyridium phylicoides
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| Spyridium phylicoides | |
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| Near the Cape Spencer Lighthouse | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Spyridium |
| Species: | S. phylicoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Spyridium phylicoides | |
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Spyridium phylicoides, commonly known as narrow-leaved spyridium,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a low shrub with rigid, linear or lance-shaped leaves, and heads of woolly-hairy flowers.
Spyridium phylicoides is a low shrub with rigid, linear to lance-shaped leaves 5–14 mm (0.20–0.55 in) long and 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) wide with the edges rolled under. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface woolly-hairy, but often hidden by the inrolled edges of the upper surface. The heads of "flowers" are more or less sessile, 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) in diameter and woolly-hairy with 2 to 5 floral leaves shorter but broader than the stem leaves. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is an oval to more or less spherical capsule 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long.[2]