Calytrix carinata
Calytrix carinata is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a more or less glabrous shrub with egg-shaped, elliptic, linear or lanceolate leaves and clusters of pink, pinkish purple, or reddish flowers with about 30 to 50 pink and yellowish white stamens in two rows.
Description
Calytrix carinata is a more or less glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are egg-shaped, elliptic, linear or lanceolate, long, wide and sessile or on a petiole long. There are stipules up to long at the base of the petioles. The floral tube is long and has 10 ribs. The sepals are joined for up to at the base, the lobes elliptic, egg-shaped or more or less round, long and wide with an awn up to long. The petals are pink, pinkish purple, or reddish with a white base, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide with about 30 to 50 pink stamens with a yellowish white base in 2 rows, becoming dark reddish as they age. Flowering occurs from March or May to October.
Taxonomy
Calytrix carinata was first formally described in 1987 by Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected west of Uluru in 1969. The specific epithet means 'keeled', referring to the bracteoles.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Calytrix grows on dunes, flats and or rocky hillsides in the Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara and Tanami regions of Western Australia, the southern part of the Northern Territory, northern South Australia and the Simpson Desert region of south-west Queenslandand where it grows on red sand and gravelly laterite on dunes, flats and rocky hillsides.