Spyridium gunnii

{{Short description|Species of shrub}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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|image = Spyridium gunnii.jpg

|image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens

|genus = Spyridium

|species = gunnii

|authority = (Hook.f.) Benth.{{cite web |title=Spyridium gunnii |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/116060 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=26 July 2022}}

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|synonyms =

• Cryptandra gunnii Hook.f.
• Spyridium obovatum var. gunnii (Hook.f.) Rodway

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Spyridium gunnii is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an upright shrub with more or less glabrous, egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and mostly more than {{cvt|12|mm}} long. The heads of flowers are arranged in cymes surrounded by 2, 3 or more floral leaves. The sepals are about {{cvt|3|mm}} long and woolly-hairy on the outside.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Greg |title=Spyridium gunnii |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/RHAMN/sSpyridium_gunnii.htm |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=26 July 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Bentham |first1=George |last2=von Mueller |first2=Ferdinand |title=Flora Australiensis |volume=1 |date=1863 |publisher=Lovell Reeve & Co. |location=London |pages=429–430 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/3669#page/487/mode/1up |access-date=26 July 2022}}

The species was first formally described in 1863 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis, from specimens collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn on the banks of the Franklin River near Macquarie Harbour.{{cite web|title=Spyridium gunnii|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/550933 |publisher=APNI|access-date=26 July 2022}}

Spyridium gunnii grows near the west coast and in the western mountains of Tasmania.