Spyridium phylicoides
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
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|image = Spyridium phylicoides.jpg
|image_caption = Near the Cape Spencer Lighthouse
|genus = Spyridium
|species = phylicoides
|authority = Reissek{{cite web |title=Spyridium phylicoides |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/55081 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=22 October 2022}}
|synonyms =
- Trymalium vexilliferum F.Muell. ex Reissek nom. inval., pro syn.
- Spyridium vexilliferum auct. non (Hook.) Reissek: Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 433, p.p.
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Spyridium phylicoides, commonly known as narrow-leaved spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a low shrub with rigid, linear or lance-shaped leaves, and heads of woolly-hairy flowers.
Description
Spyridium phylicoides is a low shrub with rigid, linear to lance-shaped leaves {{cvt|5–14|mm}} long and {{cvt|1–3|mm}} wide with the edges rolled under. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface woolly-hairy, but often hidden by the inrolled edges of the upper surface. The heads of "flowers" are more or less sessile, {{cvt|5–7|mm}} in diameter and woolly-hairy with 2 to 5 floral leaves shorter but broader than the stem leaves. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is an oval to more or less spherical capsule {{cvt|2–3|mm}} long.{{cite web |title=Spyridium phylicoides |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Spyridium_phylicoides |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |access-date=22 October 2022}}
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reissek in the journal Linnaea from specimens collected by [https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/wilhelmi-carl.html Johann Wilhelmi], near Lake Hamilton in 1855.{{cite web |title=Spyridium phylicoides |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/457071 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=22 October 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Reissek |first1=Siegfried |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 |pages=286–287 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10873#page/291/mode/1up |access-date=22 October 2022}} The specific epithet (phylicoides) means "Phylica-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=276 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution
Spyridium phylicoides occurs in the Nullarbor, Eyre Peninsula, Murray, Yorke Peninsula, Southern Lofty, Kangaroo Island and South Eastern botanical regions of south-eastern South Australia.