Spyridium phylicoides, commonly known as narrow-leaved spyridium, 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 long and 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, 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 long.[1]
This species was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reissek in the journal Linnaea from specimens collected by Johann Wilhelmi, near Lake Hamilton in 1855.[2] [3] The specific epithet (phylicoides) means "Phylica-like".[4]
Spyridium phylicoides occurs in the Nullarbor, Eyre Peninsula, Murray, Yorke Peninsula, Southern Lofty, Kangaroo Island and South Eastern botanical regions of south-eastern South Australia.