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Calytrix leptophylla

Calytrix leptophylla
Photo: Hugo Innes, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Queensland (Cook)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Calytrix leptophylla is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with linear leaves, and pink to light purple flowers with a white base, and about 35 to 40 white to yellow stamens in several rows.

Where it grows

This species of Calytrix grows in callitris country on stony ridges, near a creek, in heathy scrub on sandstone slopes and on granite outcrops from the Coen district to near Hughenden in north Queensland.

Other Calytrix plants

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 leptophylla 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.

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