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Calytrix decandra
Calytrix decandra, commonly known as pink starflower, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a semi-prostrate, glabrous shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves and pink, mauve or magenta flowers with usually 10 stamens in a single row.
Pink starflower grows in heath with Banksia speciosa or in scrub between the Bremer Bay district to the Israelite Bay district in grey or white sand on sandplains and of granite outcrops in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix decandra 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.
