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Large Myrtle

Hypocalymma puniceum

Large Myrtle
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hypocalymma puniceum, commonly known as large myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with linear leaves and bright pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils, with 35 to 55 stamens in several rows.

Where it grows

This species of Hypocalymma is found from Ballidu to near Lake Grace in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia, where it grows in lateritic sand or gravel in mallee shrubland, shrubland or heath.

Other Hypocalymma plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hypocalymma puniceum 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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