Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Spyridium burragorang

Flower cluster and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flower clusters and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A spyridium

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Open forest. Blue Mountains and south to Nattai National Park south of Lake Burragorang.

Notes

Shrub to 1.2 m high, sometimes with numerous stems from a woody rootstock. Young stems hairy. Leaves alternating  up the stems, 0.8–3 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, margins curved down, upper surface dark green and hairless, lower surface mostly densely hairy and greyish, rarely becoming hairless and green, tips blunt to pointed, stipules papery, brown. Flowers whitish, 4–5 mm long, tubular, with 5 hooded petals. Flowers in heads at the ends of the stems, each subtended by 2–4 whitish hairy 'petals' (actually leaves), and surrounded by small persistent brown bracts. Flower heads clustered.

Endangered population in the Cessnock local government area, north of the area covered by this key. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20328 (accessed 8 January 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Spyridium~burragorang (accessed 8 January 2021)