| Calytrix sapphirina | |
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| Calytrix sapphirina flowers | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Calytrix |
| Species: | C. sapphirina |
| Binomial name | |
| Calytrix sapphirina | |
Calytrix sapphirina is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia. [1]
The erect and multi-stemmed shrub typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 1.0 metre (0.7 to 3.3 ft). It mostly blooms between August and November producing pink-blue-purple star-shaped flowers. [1]
The leaves have a linear shape are crowded on the stem and are about 5 to 6 millimetres (0.20 to 0.24 in) in length. The flowers are approximately 10 mm (0.39 in) in diameter with fine hairs which extend from the calyx lobes beyond the petals. [2]
Found on sand plains, ridges and undulating slopes in an area in the extending from the Mid West through the Wheatbelt and into the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows on sandy soils over laterite or ironstone. [1]
The species was first formally described by the botanist John Lindley in 1839 as part of his work A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony . Various synonyms exist including Calycothrix lasiostachya as described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859 in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae , Calycothrix sapphirina by Johannes Conrad Schauer in 1843 in Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum and Calytrix lasiostachya as described by George Bentham in 1867 as part of the article Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. in the work Flora Australiensis . [3]
