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Calytrix gypsophila, commonly known as gypsum fringle-myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with oblong, linear or lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers with 25 to 40 stamens in a single row.
This species of Calytrix grows in littoral samphire and mallee shrublands on gypseous sands around salt lakes and claypans between the Serpentine Lakes and Lake Torrens in South Australia and in the Great Victoria Desert and Nullarbor bioregions of Western Australia.
Fringe Myrtle · Calytrix acutifolia · Snow Myrtle · Calytrix amethystina · Yellow Starflower · Calytrix arborescens · Calytrix asperula · Calytrix aurea · Calytrix birdii · Calytrix brevifolia · Calytrix breviseta · Calytrix brownii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix gypsophila 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.
