Spyridium gunnii
In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Genus: Spyridium
Species:
S. gunnii
Binomial name
Spyridium gunnii
Synonyms[1]
  • Cryptandra gunnii Hook.f.
  • Spyridium obovatum var. gunnii (Hook.f.) Rodway

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 12 mm (0.47 in) long. The heads of flowers are arranged in cymes surrounded by 2, 3 or more floral leaves. The sepals are about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and woolly-hairy on the outside.[2][3]

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.[3][4]

Spyridium gunnii grows near the west coast and in the western mountains of Tasmania.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Spyridium gunnii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 Jordan, Greg. "Spyridium gunnii". University of Tasmania. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1863). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 1. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 429–430. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "Spyridium gunnii". APNI. Retrieved 26 July 2022.


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