Citation: Reisseck, Linnaea 29:291 (1858).

Synonymy: Cryptandra coactilifolia (Reisseck)F. Mue11., Syst. Census Aust. Pl. 61 (1883). , Pomaderris coactilifolia, Spyridium bifidum, Spyridium coactilifolium

Common name: Butterfly spyridium.

Description:
Shrub with rusty-tomentose branches; leaves ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, obtuse and notched at the summit, 6-15 mm long, densely and usually shortly stellate-pubescent, concolourous, margins thickened.

Flowers in densely compact compound heads surrounded by usually 4 or 5 orbicular, notched or entire, white-velvety floral leaves; flowers funnel-shaped, c. 3 mm long, silky, brown bracts ovate and ciliate; disk lobed, raised some distance above the ovary.

Capsule obovoid, brown, crustaceous, c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous except at the base; fruitlets membranous, without a distinct suture.

	Spyridium coactilifolium twig, leaf and floral leaf.
Image source: fig 429b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Dec. — Feb.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: See under S. halmaturinum (F. Muell.)F. Muell. ex Benth. var. halmaturinum for the difference between that taxon and S. coactilifolium.

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