Cryptandra spinescens

Nicholls, ACT

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Identification history

Cryptandra spinescens	12 Aug 2018	BettyDonWood
Cryptandra amara	24 Oct 2017	MichaelMulvaney
Monotoca scoparia	22 Oct 2017	gavinlongmuir

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7 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

23 Oct 2017

Monotoca scoparia has narrow sharp leaves. I think this is an exotic, perhaps an Erica. It is not one of the common native plants in the heath family.

BettyDonWood wrote:

25 Oct 2017

The clustered leaves and spine ended branchlets fit Cryptandra amara. However the flowers are extremely aberrant. If they are hairy at all, the hairs appear to be long silky hairs held close to the flower surface (appressed). The description in Plantnet says the hairs are short, with some long appressed hairs. In addition, if the flowers in the photos have brown bracts at the base at all, they are very small. Vicflora says the bracts are up to 1.5 mm long and much broader, were very noticeable in the photo attached to the fact sheet. The local plants used to be subsp. floribunda, which plantnet says is 4-6 mm long.

Gavin, could you give us some information about leaf and flower length please.

rainer wrote:

12 Aug 2018

Cryptandra spinescens, which is found on the SW Slopes. I have seen something similar at Yass Gorge, not too far away, but have not collected it there. There appear to be bracts below the flowers, the leaves are obovate to lanceolate and branchlets spine-tipped as in Plantnet. See: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptandra~spinescens

BettyDonWood wrote:

12 Aug 2018

Thanks Rainer. I should have thought of using the Plantnet key. Betty

rainer wrote:

12 Aug 2018

No worries, but I’d say a specimen would be required for a positive ID (or has that already been collected?).

BettyDonWood wrote:

12 Aug 2018

I agree that a specimen needs to be deposited at the Herbarium. The only sightings in and near the ACT on ALA are from the NSW Bionet Atlas and without specimens.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

13 Aug 2018

I have to check a development out that way in the next few days and will make a collection

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