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Cryptandra amara
Also called Pretty Cryptandra, Spiny Cryptandra, Pearl Flower
Cryptandra amara, commonly known as bitter cryptandra or pretty pearlflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a densely branched shrub with clustered, more or less linear to egg-shaped or elliptic leaves, and tube-shaped white flowers arranged on the ends of branchlets.
Cryptandra amara grows on shallow, often rocky soils, in grassland, shrubland, woodland and heathy forest in eastern Australia. It is found in south-east Queensland, through most of New South Wales, in central, northern and eastern Victoria and southern South Australia. In Tasmania it mainly occurs in the Southern Midlands with scattered population in other places.
Cryptandra alpina · Cryptandra apetala · Waxy Cryptandra · Cryptandra aridicola · Cryptandra armata · Cryptandra beverleyensis · Cryptandra campanulata · Cryptandra ciliata · Cryptandra congesta · Cryptandra craigiae · Cryptandra debilis · Cryptandra dielsii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptandra amara by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
