Citation: F. Muell., Syst. Census Aust. Pl. 61 (1882).

Synonymy: Spyridium waterhousii F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:83 (1862); Stenanthemum waterhousii (F. Muell.)Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:436 (1863).

Common name: capsule ovoid-oblong, more than 3 mm long; fruitlet coriaceous, keeled by the ventral suture.

Description:
Erect somewhat viscid shrub, with simple appressed hairs; leaves linear, 10-15mm long, sometimes very silky, margins revolute.

Flowers in loose terminal cymes, the partial cymes 3-flowered (or 1-flowered by abortion), the central flower subsessile between the stipules of the floral leaf, the 2 lateral flowers shortly pedicellate and subtended by oblique brown bracts; flower turbinate, c. 3 mm long, hairy, disk undulate and prominent above the ovary, floral tube not much extended above the disk and adnate almost to the summit of the ovary.

	Cryptandra waterhousii with an opened flower.
Image source: 427h in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

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

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