Calytrix glutinosa

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

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

The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 1 metre (1 to 3 ft). It usually blooms between August and December producing white-pink-purple star-shaped flowers.[1]

Found on hillsides and among granite outcrops in the Mid West and Wheatbelt regions extending into the Swan Coastal Plain of Western Australia where it grows on sandy or clay soils over granite, laterite and sandstone.

The species was first formally described by the botanist John Lindley in 1839 in the work A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The only synonym is Calycothrix glutinosa, described in 1843 by Johannes Conrad Schauer in the work Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum.[2]

References
  1. "Calytrix glutinosa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. "Calytrix glutinosa Lindl". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
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