Cryptandra pendula

Cryptandra pendula is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear leaves and clusters of 5 to 15 pendulous, white, tube-shaped flowers.

Cryptandra pendula is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear leaves and clusters of 5 to 15 pendulous, white, tube-shaped flowers. ==Description== Cryptandra pendula is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its branchlets lacking spines. The leaves are linear, long and wide, on a petiole long with stipules long at the base. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, concealing most of the lower surface that is densely covered with white, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne in spike-like clusters of 5 to 15 on densely hairy peduncles. The floral tube is long and joined at the base, the lobes long. The sepals are about long and glabrous. Flowering occurs in July and August. ==Taxonomy and naming== Cryptandra pendula was first formally described in 2007 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected in 2005 near Allanooka, south-east of Geraldton in the Shire of Irwin. The specific epithet (pendula ) means "drooping", referring to the flowers and fruit. ==Distribution== This cryptandra is only known from the type location, where it grows in lateritic gravel on a hillside with several species of Melaleuca in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of south-western Western Australia. ==Conservation status== Cryptandra pendula is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations that are potentially at risk. ==References==

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