Calytrix brownii

Calytrix brownii, commonly known as the white turkeybush,[1] is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.[2]

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

The shrub can grows to a height of 0.2 to 4 metres (1 to 13 ft) and can have either an erect or prostrate habit. It blooms between March to August producing white-cream-yellow flowers[2]

Found along watercourses, on sandstone outcrops and plateaus in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and north western Queensland where it grows on skeletal sandy to loamy soils over granite, quartzite or basalt.

Initially described as Calycothrix brownii by botanist Johannes Conrad Schauer in 1843 in the work Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum 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.[3]

References
  1. Philip A. Clarke (2012). Australian plants as Aboriginal Tools. Rosenberg Publishing. ISBN 9781922013576.
  2. "Calytrix brownii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  3. "Calytrix brownii (Schauer) Craven". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
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