Calytrix truncatifolia is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with linear, egg-shaped or elliptic leaves and pink to pinkish-purple flowers with about 90 to 150 stamens in several rows.
Calytrix truncatifolia is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–1.6m (1ft 4in– 5ft 3in) and grows from the tips of the flowering stems. Its leaves are linear, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or elliptic, 2–5mm (0.079–0.197in) long, 0.75–1.2mm (0.030–0.047in) wide on a petiole0.25–1.0mm (0.0098–0.0394in) long, with stipules up to 0.5mm (0.020in) long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are arranged singly or in several scattered groups on a peduncle7–10mm (0.28–0.39in) long with broadly egg-shaped to more or less round lobes 4.5–6.0mm (0.18–0.24in) long. The floral tube is more or less oval, 11–17mm (0.43–0.67in) long and has ten ribs. The sepals are broadly egg-shaped to round, 3.5–5.25mm (0.138–0.207in) long and 3.8–5.0mm (0.15–0.20in) wide with an awn up to 14mm (0.55in) long. The petals are pink to pinkish-purple and there are 90 to 150 stamens in five rows with yellow filaments that become pinkish later. Flowering occurs from June to September.[1][2]
This species of Calytrix grows in red sand on sand dunes in the Exmouth Gulf district to Shark Bay in the Coolgardie and Yalgoo bioregions of northern Western Australia.[1][2]
↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rded.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p.329. ISBN9780958034180.
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