Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:430 (1863).

Synonymy: Trymalium spathulatum F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 122 (1855); Cryptandra spathulata (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Syst. Census Aust. Pl. 1:61 (1882).

Common name: Spoon-leaved spyridium.

Description:
Erect shrub, 1-2 m high; leaves spathulate, 5-15 mm long, more or less glabrous above, silky- or golden-pubescent below, margins recurved, apex mucronate.

Flowers sessile, 15-20 (sometimes fewer) in sessile or shortly stalked clusters (heads) in racemes, each head with a white-silky obovate-cuneate floral leaf; bracts green and obtuse or scarious and acute, c. 2 mm long, more or less glabrous, viscid; floral tube hairy with simple hairs; capsule obovoid, c. 3 mm long, hard, brown, hairy, enclosed in the enlarged bracts.

Fruitlets membranous, without a ventral suture.

	Spyridium spathulatum twig, leaf and floral leaf.
Image source: fig 430c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Costermans (1981 ) Native trees and shrubs of southeastern Australia, p. 222.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: most of the year.

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

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