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Butterfly Spyridium

Spyridium coactilifolium

Butterfly Spyridium
Photo: Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Rhamnaceae (Rhamn family)
Native range
SE. South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Spyridium coactilifolium, commonly known as butterfly spyridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It has white-velvety flowers and oval shaped leaves that are thickly covered in soft hairs.

Where it grows

Butterfly spyridium mostly grows on rocky sea cliffs in low shrubland, and inland on sloping sites in sandy soils in low, open woodland in the Encounter Bay area on Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.

Other Spyridium plants

Spyridium bifidum · Spyridium burragorang · Spyridium buxifolium · Spyridium cinereum · Spyridium coalitum · Spyridium cordatum · Spyridium daltonii · Heath Spyridium · Spyridium erymnocladum · Woods Well Spyridium · Spyridium furculentum · Spyridium glaucum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Spyridium coactilifolium 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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