Spyridium burragorang K.R.Thiele APNI* Description: Shrub to 120 cm, often 60–80 cm high, sometimes with numerous stems from woody rootstock.
Leaves oblong to narrow-oblong, 8–30 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, margins recurved, upper surface dark green and glabrous, lower surface mostly densely hairy and greyish, rarely glabrescent and green; stipules lanceolate, 3–6 mm long, brown.
Floral leaves 2–4, mostly ovate to elliptic, upper surface whitish tomentose. Bracts around individual flowers usually c. 5 mm long, brown. Flowers 4–5 mm long, hairs long and hairs at base mixed with dense short hairs above.
Flowering: Winter.
Distribution and occurrence: Recorded from the Lake Burragorang district and Wollondilly, also from near Cessnock; rare. In open forest.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Thiele and West (2004)
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