Cryptandra hispidula
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|species = hispidula
|authority = Reissek & F.Muell.{{cite web |title=Cryptandra hispidula |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/87571|publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=14 December 2022}}
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Cryptandra hispidula, commonly known as rough cryptandra,{{cite web |title=Cryptandra hispidula |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Cryptandra_hispidula |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |access-date=15 December 2022}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a small shrub with clustered, cylindrical leaves, and tube-shaped white flowers surrounded by leafy bracts.
Description
Cryptandra hispidula is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|20–30|cm}}, its branchlets covered with star-shaped hairs and rough. The leaves are clustered and more or less needle-shaped, {{cvt|3–6|mm}} long and about {{cvt|0.5|mm}} wide with the edges rolled under, concealing the lower surface. The flowers are sessile, arranged in clusters of up to 8 at the ends of branches and are white, tube-shaped, {{cvt|4–6|mm}} long and surrounded by 4 or 5 hairy brown bracts about half as long as the floral tube. The sepals are {{cvt|3–4|mm}} long and silky-hairy, the style nearly as long as the floral tube. Flowering occurs in most months.{{cite book |last1=Bentham |first1=George |last2=von Mueller |first2=Ferdinand |title=Flora Australiensis |volume=1 |date=1863 |publisher=Lovell Reeve & Co. |location=London |page=439 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/3669#page/497/mode/1up |access-date=15 December 2022}}
Taxonomy
Cryptandra hispidula was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reissek and Ferdinand von Mueller in the journal Linnaea from specimens collected by [https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/stuart-charles.html Charles Stuart].{{cite web|title=Cryptandra hispidula|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/507766|publisher=APNI|accessdate=15 December 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Reissek |first1=Siegfried |last2=von Mueller |first2=Ferdinand |title=Plantae Muellerianae Australasicae - Celastrineae, Rhamneae. |journal=Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde |date=1858 |volume=29 |issue=3 |page=294 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10873#page/299/mode/1up |access-date=15 December 2022}} The specific epithet (hispidula) means "somewhat rough".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=218 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
Rough cryptandra mainly grows in swampy country on Kangaroo Island and the southern Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia.
References
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Category:Flora of South Australia