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Calytrix superba

Calytrix superba
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia (Irwin)
Climate
subtropical

About

Calytrix superba, commonly known as superb star-flower, is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with elliptic, lance-shaped or linear leaves, and large magenta-pink to red flowers with about 20 to 25 stamens in several rows.

Where it grows

Superb star-flower grows in low heath and high shrubland with an open shrub understorey in sand over laterite in the Eneabba district in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

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 superba 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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