Spyridium cinereum
N.A.Wakef. Tiny SpyridiumGreyish, procumbent shrub to 20 cm high; branchlets densely pubescent with fine stellate hairs and a few longer simple hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate, obcordate (sometimes with a broad tooth within the notch), 3–10 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, upper surface with scattered to dense, fine stellate hairs, lower surface densely stellate-pubescent, with longer appressed simple hairs over veins; floral leaves similar, but more densely pubescent (and whiter) above; stipules pale brown, c. 1 mm long, ciliate along keel, free. Flowers in terminal heads, each head subtended by a floral leaf and several ciliate, brown bracts, the heads aggregated into approximate flattish umbels c. 1 cm diam.; perianth c. 2 mm long, whitish, externally villous; sepals c. 1 mm long; free part of the hypanthium c. 0.2 mm long; style c. 0.3 mm long, shortly 3-lobed. Fruit c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Jan
Wim, VVP, GGr, EGL. Also NSW. Disjunctly distributed, and very localized (but locally rather common) in wet heath or low scrub in the north-east Grampians and near the coast just west of Mallacoota.
Walsh, N.G. (1999). Spyridium. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 115–120. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
