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Family: Rhamnaceae
Spyridium halmaturinum

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

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

Common name: Kangaroo Island spyridium.

Description:
Low shrub with a grayish-green tomentum; leaves rather crowded or sometimes clustered, oblong-cuneate with 2 short obtuse parallel or divergent lobes, 8-12 mm long, 4-7 mm wide at the summit, margins slightly recurred, stellate-hairy on both surfaces and almost villous underneath, hairs generally not dense enough to obscure the leaf surface entirely, or oblong-linear, scarcely cuneate and notched at the summit by a reflexed point, 1.5-2 mm wide, slightly scabrous and with recurved margins, or entire, obtuse and rounded at the summit, with a closer tomentum on the upper face; stipules ovate to ovate-lanceolate, c. 3.5 mm long, shining, brown.

Flowers in dense heads; floral leaves 4 or 5, white-velvety, oblong-cuneate or oblong or ovate-oblong, notched or 2- lobed or entire; bracts ciliate; sepals silky with simple hairs; floral tube becoming glabrous; disk raised some distance above the ovary; capsule ovoid-oblong, c. 3 mm long, black, hard, almost glabrous.

Fruitlets coriaceous with a ventral suture; seed brown, glossy.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:
1. Leaves oblong-cuneate, notched or 2-fid, 4-7 mm wide at the summit
var. halmaturinum 4a.
1. Leaves oblong-linear or more or less so, entire or slightly notched at the summit, 1.5-2 mm wide
 
2. Leaves entire, tomentose
var. integrifolium 4b.
2. Leaves notched at the summit by the reflexed point, slightly scabrous
var. scabridum 4c.

Author: Not yet available


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