Cryptandra spyridioides

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Cryptandra

|species = spyridioides

|authority = F.Muell.{{cite web |title=Cryptandra spyridioides |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/87991|publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=25 February 2023}}

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Cryptandra spyridioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|10–80|cm}} and has green and creamy-white to pink flowers from May to August.{{FloraBase|id=4811|name=Cryptandra spyridioides}} It was first formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.{{cite web|title=Cryptandra spyridioides|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/508258|publisher=APNI|accessdate=25 February 2023}}{{cite book |last1=von Mueller |first1=Ferdinand |title=Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae |date=1862 |publisher=Victorian Government Printer |location=Melbourne |page=68 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7220#page/75/mode/1up |access-date=25 February 2023}} The specific epithet (spyridioides) means "sweeper", hence "Spyridium-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=312 |edition=3rd}}

This cryptandra grows in sandy and gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia. It is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.