Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Spyridium cinereum
Common name
Tiny spyridium
Family
Rhamnaceae
Where found
Heath, shrubland, and moist places. Coastal south of Eden. Occasional sightings farther north.
Notes
Shrub to 0.50 m high, often sprawling. Branchlets densely hairy with fine stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and a few longer simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–1 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, tips lobed, often with a broad tooth within the notch between the lobes, margins strongly curved down, upper surface densely tomentose, lower surface with a looser tomentum, stipules papery, pale brown. Flowers whitish, 2–3 mm long, tubular, with 5 hooded petals. Flowers in heads at the ends of the stems, each subtended by pale green to whitish hairy 'petals' (actually leaves), surrounded by small persistent brown bracts. Flower heads in clusters about 3-10 mm in diameter.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Spyridium~cinereum (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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