Micrantheum hexandrum
Micrantheum hexandrum, commonly known as box micrantheum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, monoecious shrub with oblong to narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and small white flowers with six or nine stamens.
Description
Micrantheum hexandrum is an erect, monoecious, more or less glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of about. The leaves are oblong to narrowly lance-shaped or lance-shaped, with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a small point on the tip. Male flowers are borne on a peduncle about long, the sepals egg-shaped and long, and have six or nine stamens. Female flowers are more or less sessile, the sepals lance-shaped to egg-shaped and long. Flowering mostly occurs from October to February, and the fruit is an oval to spherical capsule long.
Taxonomy
Micrantheum hexandrum was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in the London Journal of Botany from specimens collected near Launceston. The specific epithet means "six stamens".
Distribution and habitat
Box micrantheum grows on rocky sites and near watercourses, often at higher altitudes, from south-eastern Queensland, along the coast and tablelands of New South Wales to scattered places in eastern Victoria and to eastern Tasmania.