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Barrens Myrtle

Hypocalymma jessicae

Barrens Myrtle
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hypocalymma jessicae, commonly known as Barrens myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub, with narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and pale to bright pink flowers mostly arranged in pairs in leaf axils, with 35 to 100 stamens in several rows.

Where it grows

This species of Hypocalymma grows in shallow sand on rocky outcrops in the Ravensthorpe Range and Fitzgerald River National Park in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Hypocalymma plants

White Myrtle · Hypocalymma asperum · Hypocalymma connatum · Hypocalymma cordifolium · Hypocalymma elongatum · Hypocalymma ericifolium · Hypocalymma gardneri · Hypocalymma hirsutum · Hypocalymma linifolium · Hypocalymma longifolium · Hypocalymma melaleucoides · Hypocalymma minus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hypocalymma jessicae 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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