Spyridium scortechinii
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| Spyridium scortechinii | |
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| In the Armidale Arboretum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Spyridium |
| Species: | S. scortechinii |
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| Spyridium scortechinii | |
Spyridium scortechinii is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves, and dense heads of white, woolly-hairy flowers with brown bracts at the base.
Spyridium scortechinii is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in). Its leaves are egg-shaped to narrowly lance-shaped, 6–15 mm (0.24–0.59 in) long and 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide with linear brown stipules 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) 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 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) wide, arranged on the ends of branches and are 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) wide, the heads and the individual flowers with brown bracts at the base. The flowers are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and covered with woolly white hairs. Flowering occurs from late winter to spring.[2]