Winged spyridium | |
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In the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rhamnaceae |
Genus: | Spyridium |
Species: | S. vexilliferum
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Binomial name | |
Spyridium vexilliferum | |
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Spyridium vexilliferum, commonly known as winged spyridium,[2] or helicopter bush,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, low-lying to erect shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and dense heads of small white flowers.