Cryptandra polyclada

Cryptandra polyclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading to mat-forming or erect shrub with white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers. It was first formally described in 1904 by Ludwig Diels in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie from specimens collected near Tammin. The specific epithet (polyclada) means "many shoots". In 1995, Barbara Lynette Rye described two subspecies of C. polyclada in the journal Nuytsia, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Cryptandra polyclada subsp. aequabilis Rye is a low, dense, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–40 cm (3.9–15.7 in), has leaves 1.8–2.8 mm (0.071–0.110 in) long, white flowers, the floral tube about 1.0 mm (0.039 in) long densely covered with star-shaped hairs, and sepals 0.8 mm (0.031 in) long. Flowering occurs in October. This subspecies is only known from......read more on Wikipedia.