Family: Rhamnaceae
Cryptandra amara
Citation:
Smith in Rees, Cyclop. 10 (1808).
Synonymy: C. sieberi Fenzl in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 23 (1837); C. sieberi Fenzl var. angustifolia Fenzl, Enum. Pl. Hügel 23 (1837); C. sieberi Fenzl var. latifolia Fenzl, Enum. Pl. Hügel 23 (1837).
Common name: Bitter cryptandra.
Description:
Low shrub, less than 1 m high, with rigid intricate branches; branchlets stellate-hoary, often ending in spines; leaves 2-6 mm long, variable, from oblanceolate, flat, less than 3 mm wide with slightly recurved margins (in the eastern States) to terete, less than 1 mm wide with closely revolute margins.
Flowers subsessile in loose few-flowered clusters or short leafy spikes; flower broadly campanulate, 3-6 mm long, silky with mostly simple hairs; brown bracts broad, obtuse, covering only the short turbinate adnate base of the floral tube; floral tube 1 to several times as long as the sepals.
capsule attached to the base of the floral tube only.
Published illustration:
Curtis (1975) Students flora of Tasmania 1:113.
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
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Biology:
No text
Key to Infraspecific taxa:
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1. Flowers crowded at the ends of branchlets; spikes 10-20-flowered |
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var. floribunda 1b. |
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1. Flowers not so crowded; spikes 2- or 3-flowered or flowers solitary |
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2. Flowers not solitary, less than 5 mm long; floral tube more or less equal to the sepals |
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var. amara 1a. |
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2. Flowers usually solitary, 5-6 mm long; floral tube several times longer than the sepals |
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var. longiflora 1c. |
Author:
Not yet available
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