Spyridium stenophyllum
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| Spyridium stenophyllum | |
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| Near Midgee, South Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Spyridium |
| Species: | S. stenophyllum |
| Binomial name | |
| Spyridium stenophyllum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Trymalium stenophyllum Reissek | |
Spyridium stenophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south of South Australia. It is a sticky shrub with narrowly Y-shaped leaves, and heads of white to cream-coloured flowers surrounded by densely felty-hairy floral leaves.
Spyridium stenophyllum is a sticky shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) and has densely hairy young stems. The leaves are arranged alternately, narrowly Y-shaped or narrowly wedge-shaped, mainly 3.8–7.5 mm (0.15–0.30 in) long and 1.2–2.8 mm (0.047–0.110 in) wide on a petiole 0.9–2.2 mm (0.035–0.087 in) long with triangular to narrowly egg-shaped stipules 2–3.8 mm (0.079–0.150 in) long. The edges of the leaves are turned down or rolled under, the lower surface densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The heads of "flowers" are more or less sessile, 6–11 mm (0.24–0.43 in) in diameter and hairy, surrounded by 3 to 5 densely felty-hairy floral leaves 3.2–7 mm (0.13–0.28 in) long and 1.6–2.8 mm (0.063–0.110 in) wide. The flowers are white to cream-coloured, the floral tube 0.4–0.5 mm (0.016–0.020 in) long. The fruit is an oval to elliptic capsule 1.7–2.0 mm (0.067–0.079 in) long.[2]