Citation: Reisseck, Linnaea 29:289 (1858).

Synonymy: S. coactilifolium Reisseck var. integrifolium Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:431 (1863); S. stuartii Reisseck & F. Muell. ex Reisseck, Linnaea 29:290 (1858); Cryptandra obovata sensu Tate, Hdbk. Fl. Extratrop. S. Aust. 97 (1890), non (Hook.)Hook. f. , Spyridium thymifolium, Trymalium stuartii

Common name: Thyme-leaved spyridium.

Description:
Small shrub, c. 50 cm high, sometimes flowering under 10 cm high; branchlets slender, white or rusty with a rather loose stellate tomentum; leaves ovate and subacute, sometimes almost orbicular and subcordate at the base, 7-20 mm long, 4-15 mm wide, flat or somewhat concave above, upper surface glabrous with nerves somewhat impressed, lower surface greyish-tomentose with prominent nerves; stipules brownish-black.

Flowers in compound heads, 4-9 mm diam., almost woolly; floral leaves 2 or 3, orbicular, white-velvety above; bracts dark-brown, ciliate; capsule ovoid, almost glabrous.

Fruitlets membranous, without a suture; seed mottled.

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

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Feb.

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

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