Spyridium daltonii
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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|genus = Spyridium
|species = daltonii
|authority = (F.Muell.) Kellermann{{cite web |title=Spyridium daltonii |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/195053 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=9 July 2022}}
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Spyridium daltonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It is a shrub with softly-hairy branchlets, linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and small groups of hairy, yellowish flowers.
Description
Spyridium daltonii is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.8–3|m}}, its branchlets covered with a soft layer of star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, mostly {{cvt|6–10|mm}} long and about {{cvt|1|mm}} wide with stipules {{cvt|1–3|mm}} long at the base. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, the tip is sharply-pointed, the upper surface is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with star-shaped hairs. The heads of flowers arranged on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils and are up to about {{cvt|10|mm}} in diameter with bracts at the base, the individual flowers more or less sessile, yellowish and densely hairy. The sepals are {{cvt|1.0–1.4|mm}} long and the petals about {{cvt|0.7|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a capsule about {{cvt|3|mm}} long.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville G. |title=Spyridium daltonii |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/7ad45011-9d8d-4678-bbb0-3ac44b6e9170 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=9 July 2022}}
Taxonomy
This spyridium was first formally described in 1875 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Trymalium daltonii in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by [https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/dalton-st-eloy.html St. Ely D'Alton].{{cite web|title=Trymalium daltoni|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/506862 |publisher=APNI|access-date=9 July 2022}}{{cite book |last1=von Mueller |first1=Ferdinand |title=Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae |volume=9 |date=1875 |publisher=Victorian Government Printer |location=Melbourne |pages=135–137 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7226#page/136/mode/1up |access-date=9 July 2022}} In 2006, Jürgen Kellermann changed the name to Spyridium daltonii in the journal Muelleria.{{cite web|title=Spyridium daltonii|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/603469 |publisher=APNI|access-date=9 July 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Kellermann |first1=Jürgen |title=New combinations for two species of Spyridium (Rhamnaceae: Pomaderreae) from the Grampians, Victoria. |journal=Muelleria |date=2006 |volume=22 |pages=97–98 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/278244#page/99/mode/1up |access-date=9 July 2022}}
Distribution
Spyridium daltonii grows in heathy woodland and is endemic to central areas of the Grampians in Victoria.
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Category:Flora of Victoria (state)