Citation: Cunn. ex Fenzl in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 23 (1837).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Silky cryptandra.

Description:
Small shrub with rigid hoary branches and short almost spiny spreading branchlets; leaves terete, 2-4 mm long, usually clustered and sometimes lacking on flowering branchlets, margins closely revolute.

Flowers sessile, 3-8 in dense spikes at the ends of branchlets; flower c. 6 mm long, silky with mostly simple hairs outside, subtended at the base by obtuse ciliate brown bracts which are unequal in length, imbricate in several rows and covering the whole floral tube, sepals lanceolate and equal in length to the floral tube.

	Cryptandra propinqua
Image source: 427f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, GT, FR, EP, MU, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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