Spyridium vexilliferum

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Winged spyridium
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Genus: Spyridium
Species:
S. vexilliferum
Binomial name
Spyridium vexilliferum
Synonyms [1]
  • Cryptandra vexilliferaHook.
  • Spyridium diffusumReissek
  • Spyridium eriocephalum var. vexilliferum(Hook.) F.Muell.
  • Trymalium diversifoliumF.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.
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In the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

Spyridium vexilliferum, commonly known as winged spyridium, [2] or helicopter bush, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, low-lying to erect shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and dense heads of small white flowers.

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Description

Spyridium vexilliferum is a low-lying to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and has its branchlets densely covered with star-shaped, often rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, 8–25 mm (0.31–0.98 in) long and 1–7 mm (0.039–0.276 in) wide with narrow, brown stipules 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long at the base. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, the upper surface glabrous and shiny, the lower surface covered with whitish hairs or often obscured. The heads of "flowers" are about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter and shaggy-hairy surrounded by up to 4 egg-shaped or oblong, woolly-white floral leaves. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January. [2] [4]

Taxonomy

In 1834, William Jackson Hooker described Cryptandra vexillifera in The Journal of Botany from specimens collected at Port Dalrymple. [5] [6] In 1858, Siegfried Reissek changed the name to Spyridium vexilliferum in the journal Linnea. [7] The specific epithet (vexilliferum) means "standard-bearing". [8]

In 1863, George Bentham described S. vexilliferum var. latifolium in Flora Australiensis , [9] and the name, and that of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

The variety vexilliferum grows in sandy heath, heathy woodland or mallee and on rocky outcrops from the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia to scattered locations in south-western Victoria and in the east, north and west of Tasmania. [14] [15] [3] Variety latifolium is only known from south-eastern South Australia to the Portland area in south-western Victoria. [11] [12]

Conservation status

Spyridium vexilliferum var. vexilliferum is listed as "rare" in Tasmania under the Tasmanian Government Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 . [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Spyridium vexilliferum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Spyridium vexilliferum". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Spyridium vexilliferum var. vexilliferum". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  4. ↑ Walsh, Neville G. "Spyridium vexilliferum". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Cryptandra vexillifera". APNI. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Hooker, William Jackson (1834). "Contributions Towards a Flora of Van Dieman's Land; from collections sent by R. W. Lawrence, and Ronald Gunn, Esqrs., and by Dr. Scott". The Journal of Botany. 1: 257. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Spyridium vexilliferum". APNI. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  8. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 335. ISBN   9780958034180.
  9. ↑ Bentham, George (1863). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 1. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 434. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "Spyridium vexilliferum var. latifolium". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  11. 1 2 Walsh, Neville G. "Spyridium vexilliferum var. latifolium". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  12. 1 2 "Spyridium vexilliferum var. latifolium". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  13. ↑ "Spyridium vexilliferum var. vexilliferum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  14. 1 2 Walsh, Neville G. "Spyridium vexilliferum var. vexilliferum". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  15. 1 2 "Spyridium vexilliferum var. vexilliferum". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  16. ↑ Jordan, Greg. "Spyridium vexilliferum". University of Tasmania. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
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