Calytrix gypsophila

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

Calytrix gypsophila, commonly known as the gypsum fringle-myrtle, [1] is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia. [2]

The shrub typically grows to a height of 2 metres (7 ft). It usually blooms between February to September producing white flowers. [2] Later it will produce a long cylindrical fruit approximately 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long and 2 mm (0.079 in) wide, with fan-shaped wings and awns at one end. Inside a small ovoid seed sits in the long section of the fruit. [1]

Found on plains, around salt lakes and on clay pans often with samphires in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and into central and western South Australia where it grows on gypseous sand or loam soils. [2] [1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Lyndley Craven in 1987 in the article A taxonomic revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae) in the journal Brunonia . [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Calytrix gypsophila (Myrtaceae) Gypsum Fringe-myrtle". Seeds of South Australia. Government of South Australia . Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Calytrix gypsophila". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  3. ↑ "Calytrix gypsophila Craven". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
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