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Cryptandra armata

Cryptandra armata
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Rhamnaceae (Rhamn family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Cryptandra armata is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with spiny branchlets, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and creamy-white tube-shaped to bell-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This cryptandra grows in sandy soil over sandstone or granite from Ashford in New South Wales to Gladstone and as far inland as Morven in Queensland.

Other Cryptandra plants

Cryptandra alpina · Bitter Cryptandra · Cryptandra apetala · Waxy Cryptandra · Cryptandra aridicola · Cryptandra beverleyensis · Cryptandra campanulata · Cryptandra ciliata · Cryptandra congesta · Cryptandra craigiae · Cryptandra debilis · Cryptandra dielsii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptandra armata 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.

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