Spyridium
Spyridium parvifolium
Spyridium is a genus of the family of the buckthorn family ( Rhamnaceae ). It is native to Australia and includes about 30 species.
Description
Spyridium are evergreen, non-reinforced, hairy bushes and a lot of grown trees with a height of up to 10 meters. The alternate arranged leaves are leathery and relatively small.
The flowers are sessile in heads or groups and are surrounded by permanent brown bracts. Heads are often arranged in composite heads. A flower cups is missing or very short, the discussion more or less lobed. The ovary is inferior, the part of fruits open the side or not at all.
Distribution and systematics
Spyridium are native to Western and South Australia. The genus was first described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl. Within the buckthorn plants it is classified in the tribe Pomaderreae. The genus includes about 30 species.
Types are:
- Spyridium bifidum
- Spyridium Burragorang
- Spyridium buxifolium
- Spyridium cinereum
- Spyridium coactilifolium
- Spyridium complicatum
- Spyridium cordatum
- Spyridium daltonii
- Spyridium denticuliferum
- Spyridium divaricatum
- Spyridium eriocephalum
- Spyridium glaucum
- Spyridium globulosum
- Gunnii Spyridium
- Spyridium halmaturinum
- Spyridium kalganense
- Spyridium lawrencei
- Leucopogon Spyridium
- Spyridium majoranifolium
- Spyridium microcephalum
- Spyridium microphyllum
- Spyridium minutum
- Spyridium montanum
- Spyridium mucronatum
- Spyridium nitidum
- Spyridium obovatum
- Spyridium oligocephalum
- Spyridium parvifolium
- Spyridium phlebophyllum
- Spyridium phylicoides
- Spyridium polycephalum
- Spyridium riparium
- Spyridium scortechinii
- Spyridium spadiceum
- Spyridium spathulatum
- Spyridium subochreatum
- Spyridium thymifolium
- Spyridium tricolor
- Spyridium tridentatum
- Spyridium ulicinum
- Spyridium vexilliferum
- Spyridium villosum
- Spyridium westringiifolium