Cryptandra myriantha

Cryptandra myriantha is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a slender, erect or straggling shrub with cylindrical leaves and more or less sessile clusters of creamy-white to pink flowers.

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Cryptandra myriantha is a slender, erect or straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–60 cm (3.9–23.6 in) and has branchlets lacking spines. The leaves are mostly cylindrical, mostly 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long and 0.5–1 mm (0.020–0.039 in) in diameter on a short petiole with egg-shaped stipules up to 1.7 mm (0.067 in) long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with minute pimples. The flowers are creamy-white to pink and arranged singly or in a raceme of up to 10 on a short pedicel with brown, egg-shaped bracts 1.0–2.2 mm (0.039–0.087 in) long at the base. The floral tube is bell-shaped, 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) long and white, the sepals 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long and softly-hairy, the petals 0.7–1 mm (0.028–0.039 in) long. Flowering occurs from May to September.

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