Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cryptandra sp. Floriferous

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Black Mountain, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Photographer FranM, Mt Majura, Canberra, ACT.

Shrub. Photographer Mike Sim, Wanniassa Hill, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A cryptandra

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Mostly Western Slopes, ACT, and the tablelands. Dry forest, woodland, mallee, and heath.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high or sprawling. Branchlets occasionally terminating in spines. Stems stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often with longer simpler hairs as well. Leaves clustered and alternating up the stems, 0.2–1 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, more or less cylindrical, margins strongly rolled down, surfaces white-tomentose with short stellate and longer simple hairs. Flowers white, ageing pink to reddish, 2–3 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube with 5 lobes, in crowded clusters, rarely single. Flowers mostly Aug.–Oct.

Full name Cryptandra sp. Floriferous (W.R. Barker 4131) W.R. Barker

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptandra~sp.+Floriferous+(W.R.Barker+4131) (accessed 13 April 2021)