See text Spyridium is a genus of about thirty species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, and is endemic to Australia.

Plants in the genus Spyridium are shrubs or subshrubs, usually less than 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall and have hairy branchlets.

The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches and are usually small, with papery brown stipules at the base.

[2][3][4][5] The genus Spyridium was first formally described in 1837 by Eduard Fenzl in Stephan Endlicher's Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel and the first species described was Spyridium eriocephalum.

[6][7] The genus name (Spyridium) means "a small basket", referring to the bracts surrounding the clusters of flowers.