Cryptandra aridicola is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a small, spreading shrub with white or pink flowers.
Cryptandra aridicola is usually a spreading shrub to high. The young stems are thickly covered initially with white, matted hairs but soon becoming smooth. The leaves are narrowly elliptic-oblong shaped, long, wide, petiole long, upper surface smooth or with minute protuberances, and ending in a recurved point. The flowers are borne singly or in groups of 2-7 per branchlet in a cluster wide, white or sometimes pink. The floral tube is long, fused portion long, base half thickly covered with star-shaped hairs, smooth or occasional star-shaped hairs, free section long, smooth or almost so on base half. Flowering occurs from July to September and the dry fruit is moderately or thickly hairy.[1]
Cryptandra aridicola was first formally described in 1995 by Barbara Lynette Rye and the description was published in the journal Nuytsia.[2] The specific epithet (aridicola ) means "arid inhabitant".[3]
This cryptandra grows in sandy location over limestone or granite on stoney ridges, hills and plains in the Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.[4]