Cryptandra scoparia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|authority = Reissek{{cite web |title=Cryptandra scoparia |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/87925|publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=20 February 2023}}

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Cryptandra scoparia is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|20–90|cm}} and has white to cream-coloured flowers from May to June or August.{{FloraBase|id=4810|name=Cryptandra scoparia}} It was first formally described in 1848 by Siegfried Reissek in Plantae Preissianae.{{cite web|title=Cryptandra scoparia|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/508263|publisher=APNI|accessdate=20 February 2023}}{{cite book |last1=Reissek |first1=Siegfried |last2=Lehmann |first2=Johann G.C. |title=Plantae Preissianae |volume=2 |date=1848 |publisher=Sumptibus Meissneri |location=Hamburg |page=285 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9228#page/286/mode/1up |access-date=20 February 2023}} The specific epithet (scoparia) means "sweeper", hence "broom-like".{{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=303 |edition=3rd}}

This cryptandra grows in sandy soil over laterite in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.