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Calytrix asperula, commonly known as brush starflower, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a mostly glabrous shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves and cream-coloured to yellow flowers with 40 to 60 yellow stamens in several rows.
Brush starflower grows in heathy scrub on sand and on flats and granite outcrops and is found between the Denmark River, Bremer Bay and the Narembeen district in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix asperula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
