Species of plant
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Spyridium vexilliferum, commonly known as winged spyridium, or helicopter bush, 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. 
Description.
"Spyridium vexilliferum" is a low-lying to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has its branchlets densely covered with star-shaped, often rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, long and wide with narrow, brown stipules long at the base. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, the upper surface and shiny, the lower surface covered with whitish hairs or often obscured. The heads of "flowers" are about in diameter and shaggy-hairy surrounded by up to 4 egg-shaped or oblong, woolly-white floral leaves. Flowering mainly occurs from September to January.
Taxonomy.
In 1834, William Jackson Hooker described "Cryptandra vexillifera" in "The Journal of Botany" from specimens collected at Port Dalrymple. In 1858, Siegfried Reissek changed the name to "Spyridium vexilliferum" in the journal "Linnea". The specific epithet ("vexilliferum") means "standard-bearing".
In 1863, George Bentham described "S. vexilliferum" var. "latifolium" in "Flora Australiensis", and the name, and that of the autonym are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
Distribution and habitat.
The variety "vexilliferum" grows in sandy heath, heathy woodland or mallee and on rocky outcrops from the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia to scattered locations in south-western Victoria and in the east, north and west of Tasmania. Variety "latifolium" is only known from south-eastern South Australia to the Portland area in south-western Victoria.
Conservation status.
"Spyridium vexilliferum" var. "vexilliferum" is listed as "rare" in Tasmania under the Tasmanian Government "Threatened Species Protection Act 1995".
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