Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Spyridium scortechinii

Flower cluster and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flower clusters and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Wallaga Lake, near Bermagui

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

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Stocks Native Nursery and Botanic Gardens, Harden

Common name

A spyridium

Family

Rhamnaceae

Where found

Forest, shrubland, rocky sites, and near streams. Coast and ranges north of Tura Beach.

Notes

Shrub to 0.5 m high. Young stems hairy. Leaves alternating  up the stems, 0.6–1.5 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed, margins flat or curved down, sometimes strongly so, upper surface hairless, lower surface greyish tomentose, stipules papery, brown. Flowers white, 4–5 mm long, apparently tubular, with 5 hooded petals. Flowers in dense heads 10–15 mm in diameter, with brown bracts surrounding the flower heads heads as well as the individual flowers. Flowers Winter to Spring.

Was Cryptandra scortechinii.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Spyridium~scortechinii (accessed 7 February, 2021)