Spyridium stenophyllum

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Spyridium stenophyllum
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Near Midgee, South Australia
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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]

Trymalium stenophyllumReissek

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.

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Description

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]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reissek who gave it the name Trymalium stenophyllum in the journal Linnaea from specimens collected by Johann Friedrich Carl Wilhelmi at "Point Boston". [2] [3] In 2012, Jürgen Kellermann and William Robert Barker changed the name to Spyridium stenophyllum in the journal Muelleria . [4] The specific epithet (stenophyllum) means "narrow-leaved". [5]

In the same journal article, Kellermann and Barker described two subspecies of S. stenophyllum, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

Spyridium stenophyllum grows on sand dunes and in mallee vegetation in southern South Australia. Subspecies renovatum mainly occurs on the Eyre Peninsula and parts of the Flinders Ranges and subsp. stenophyllum is distributed around Arno Bay, along the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula, and in scattered place further inland. [2]

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<i>Spyridium bifidum</i> Species of shrub

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Spyridium coalitum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with softly-hairy young stems, oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves, and head of white to cream-coloured flowers.

<i>Spyridium daltonii</i> Species of shrub

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Spyridium fontis-woodii, commonly known as Woods Well spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to a small area of Coorong National Park in South Australia. It is a slender shrub with softly-hairy young stems, broadly egg-shaped to broadly heart-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and head of white to cream-coloured flowers.

<i>Spyridium furculentum</i> Species of shrub

Spyridium furculentum, commonly known as forked spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to a small area of Victoria in Australia. It is a shrub with softly-hairy young stems, Y-shaped leaves, and head of white to cream-coloured flowers.

Spyridium glaucum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-western Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with egg-shaped leaves, and clusters of 3 to 6 rusty-hairy flowers.

<i>Spyridium halmaturinum</i> Species of shrub

Spyridium halmaturinum, commonly known as Kangaroo Island spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is an erect, sticky shrub with densely softly-hairy young stems, leaves that are heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base to broadly wedge-shaped or Y-shaped, and dense heads of white to cream-coloured flowers.

<i>Spyridium leucopogon</i> Species of shrub

Spyridium leucopogon, commonly known as silvery spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is a small, slender shrub with narrowly linear leaves, and heads of woolly, white flowers.

Spyridium minutum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with broadly egg-shaped or heart-shaped leaves, and groups of two or three hairy, white flowers.

Spyridium montanum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the Stirling Range in the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with elliptic or egg-shaped leaves, and groups of up to ten densely hairy, white or cream-coloured flowers.

Spyridium mucronatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub usually with narrowly oblong leaves, and dense clusters of up to ten densely hairy, white to yellow flowers.

Spyridium × ramosissimum, commonly known as branched spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It is a small shrub with woolly-hairy branches, egg-shaped leaves, and crowded heads of hairy flowers with brown bracts.

<i>Spyridium riparium</i> Species of shrub

Spyridium riparium is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub, usually with narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and clusters of densely hairy, white or cream-coloured flowers.

Spyridium scabridum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub or small tree with oblong or narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and heads of sparsely hairy, white to cream-coloured flowers surrounded by densely hairy floral leaves.

<i>Spyridium spadiceum</i> Species of shrub

Spyridium spadiceum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect or semi-prostrate shrub with narrowly oblong to oval leaves and heads of hairy flowers with brown bracts at the base.

<i>Spyridium subochreatum</i> Species of shrub

Spyridium subochreatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a low shrub with linear to oblong or narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and dense clusters of creamy-white flowers with dark brown, papery bracts at the base.

References

  1. 1 2 "Spyridium stenophyllum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Kellerman, Jurgen; Barker, William R. (2012). "Revision of the Spyridium bifidum - S. halmaturinum complex (Rhamaceae: Pomaderreae) from South Australia and Victoria". Muelleria. 30 (1): 50–56. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  3. "Trymalium stenophyllum". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  4. "Spyridium stenophyllum". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  5. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 313. ISBN   9780958034180.
  6. "Spyridium stenophyllum subsp. renovatum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  7. "Spyridium stenophyllum subsp. stenophyllum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 November 2022.