''Spyridium daltonii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Victoria in Australia. It is a shrub with softly-hairy branchlets, linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and small groups of hairy, yellowish flowers.

Description

''Spyridium daltonii'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets covered with a soft layer of star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, mostly long and about wide with stipules long at the base. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, the tip is sharply-pointed, the upper surface is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with star-shaped hairs. The heads of flowers arranged on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils and are up to about in diameter with bracts at the base, the individual flowers more or less sessile, yellowish and densely hairy. The

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 Etymology The term ''sepalum'' ...

s are long and the petals about long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a capsule about long.

Taxonomy

This spyridium was first formally described in 1875 by

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia ...

who gave it the name ''Trymalium daltonii'' in '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' from specimens collected b
St. Ely D'Alton
In 2006, Jürgen Kellermann changed the name to ''Spyridium daltonii'' in the journal '' Muelleria''.

Distribution

''Spyridium daltonii'' grows in heathy woodland and is endemic to central areas of the Grampians in Victoria.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17242359 daltonii Rosales of Australia Flora of Victoria (state) Plants described in 1875 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller