Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:432 (1863).

Synonymy: Trymalium bifidum F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1:121 (1855); Cryptandra bifida (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Syst. Census Aust. Pl. 1:61 (1882).

Common name: Forked spyridium.

Description:
Small shrub with slender branches; leaves cuneate to linear-cuneate, margins revolute, 4-12 mm long, 2-7 mm wide at the summit which is more or less deeply bifurcate, lobes divergent, obtuse or subacute, rarely some or all leaves linear and entire.

Flowers in prominent dense woolly subglobular pedunculate heads, 6-12 mm diam., surrounded by 4 or 5 white-velvety floral leaves, more or less 2-fid, narrow or rather broad; flowers silky with simple hairs; capsule c. 3 mm long, densely silky or villous; endocarp almost hyaline, without a suture, sometimes adherent to the epicarp and floral tube.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Leaves 2-fid, 6-12 mm long, 2-7 mm wide at the summit	var. bifidum 1a.
1. Leaves linear, entire, 5-10 mm long, c. 1 mm wide	var. integrifolium 1b.

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