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Calytrix ecalycata is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and yellow flowers with 35 to 50 stamens in several rows.
This species of Calytrix grows on sandplains, flats, ridges, hills and roadsides between Port Gregory and Regans Ford in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. The 3 subspecies occur in the same area, subspecies brevis on sandplains and low rises in mallee shrubland and mixed shrubland from Coorow to near Moora and south to Regans Ford, subsp. ecalycata in winter-wet wandoo woodland, Melaleuca uncinata shrubland, mixed low heath and Eucalyptus eudesmioides mallee. Subspecies pubescens is only known from the type location south-west of Moora, where it grows in wandoo woodland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix ecalycata 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.
