Spyridium phylicoides explained

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.

Description

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]

Taxonomy

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]

Distribution

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Spyridium phylicoides . State Herbarium of South Australia . 22 October 2022.
  2. Web site: Spyridium phylicoides . Australian Plant Name Index . 22 October 2022.
  3. Reissek . Siegfried . Plantae Muellerianae Australasicae - Celastrineae, Rhamneae. . Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde . 1858 . 29 . 3 . 286–287 . 22 October 2022.
  4. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 276 . 3rd.