Calytrix microcoma

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

Calytrix microcoma, commonly known is turkey bush, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a mostly glabrous shrub with egg-shaped to linear leaves and mauve, pinkish purple or plum purple flowers, and about 30 to 50 stamens in several rows.

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Description

Calytrix microcoma is a mostly glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in). Its leaves are egg-shaped to linear, 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long, 0.80–1.25 mm (0.031–0.049 in) wide and sessile or on a petiole up to 0.3 mm (0.012 in) long. There are stipules up to 0.4 mm (0.016 in) long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are borne singly or in small groups on a peduncle 4.5–7.5 mm (0.18–0.30 in) long with egg-shaped lobes 2.5–3.75 mm (0.098–0.148 in) long. The floral tube is partly free from the style, 11–14 mm (0.43–0.55 in) and has 10 ribs. The sepals are fused at the base, with more or less round to egg-shaped lobes 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long and 2.75–5.0 mm (0.108–0.197 in) long, with an awn long up to 17 mm (0.67 in) long. The petals are mauve, pinkish purple or plum purple, narrowly elliptic, 10.5–11.0 mm (0.41–0.43 in) long and 3.5–4.0 mm (0.14–0.16 in) wide, and there are about 30 to 50 stamens in two rows. Flowering occurs from July to October. [3]

Taxonomy

Calytrix microcoma was first formally described in 1987 by Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected in 32 km (20 mi) east of Barcaldine by Nancy Tyson Burbidge in 1956. [3] [4] The specific epithet (microcoma) is a reference to hair-like bodies at the tip of the floral tube. [3]

Distribution and habitat

Turkey bush grows on sandy soil in an ironbark-poplar box-spinifex community, and in sandy loam in Eucalyptus similis woodland, from the Torrens Creek-Pentland district to the Jericho-Yalleroi district.

Conservation status

Calytrix microcoma is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992 . [5] [5]

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References

  1. "Calytrix microcoma". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  2. "Calytrix microcoma Myrtaceae". Native Plants Queensland, Townsville Branch. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Craven, Lyndley (1987). "A taxonomic revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae)". Brunonia: 70–71.
  4. "Calytrix microcoma". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Species profile—Calytrix microcoma". Queensland Government, Department of Education and Science. Retrieved 20 November 2024.