Calytrix pimeleoides

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Calytrix pimeleoides
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Status DECF P3.svg
Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Calytrix
Species:
C. pimeleoides
Binomial name
Calytrix pimeleoides

Calytrix pimeleoides is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with overlapping narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow flowers with 35 to 50 stamens in several rows.

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Description

Calytrix pimeleoides is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows up to 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) high and wide and has glabrous branchlets. Its leaves are overlapping, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide on a petiole about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long. The flowers are borne on a glabrous peduncle 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long with narrowly egg-shaped lobes 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. The floral tube is about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and more or less cylindrical with four ribs. The sepal lobes are absent. The petals are yellow, narrowly elliptic to oblong, 9–10 mm (0.35–0.39 in) long and about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide, and there are about 35 to 50 stamens in several rows. Flowering occurs from August to October. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Calytrix pimeleoides was first formally described in 2004 by Gregory John Keighery in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Charles Gardner in 1961. [2] [4] The specific epithet (pimeleoides) means ' Pimelea -like', referring to the overlapping leaves of some Pimelea species, such as P. ammocharis and P. argentea . [2]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Calytrix grows on deep yellow sand, usually under Banksia woodland in scattered locations between Kalbarri National Park and Northampton in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Calytrix pimeleoides is listed as " "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [3] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Calytrix pimeleoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Keighery, Gregory J. (2004). "Taxonomy of the Calytrix ecalycata complex (Myrtaceae)". Nuytsia. 15 (2): 262–265. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Calytrix pimeleoides". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ↑ "Calytrix pimeleoides". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  5. ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
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