Calytrix acutifolia

Calytrix acutifolia is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.[1]

Calytrix acutifolia
Calytrix acutifolia foliage and flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Calytrix
Species:
C. acutifolia
Binomial name
Calytrix acutifolia

The open-branched and slender shrub typically grows to a height of 2 metres (7 ft). It blooms between April and December producing white-cream-yellow flowers[1]

Found on dunes, slopes, swampy ground, among rock outcrops and on breakaways on the Swan Coastal Plain and Geraldton Sand Plains where it grows on sandy to loamy soils over granite or laterite.

Initially described as Lhotskya acutifolia by the botanist John Lindley in 1839 in the work A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony it was reclassified into the genus Calytrix in by Lyndley Craven in 1987 in A taxonomic revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae) in the journal Brunonia.[2]

There is one recognised subspecies; Calytrix acutifolia subsp. acutifolia.

References
  1. "Calytrix acutifolia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. "Calytrix acutifolia (Lindl.) Craven". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
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