Calytrix glaberrima
Calytrix glaberrima, commonly known as smooth fringe-myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of South Australia. It is a woody, glabrous shrub with elliptic, linear or egg-shaped leaves and clusters of white to pink flowers with 20 to 30 white stamens in a single row.
Description
Calytrix glaberrima is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are spreading to erect, elliptic, linear or egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. There are stipules up to long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are borne on a peduncle long with egg-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped bracteoles at the base. The floral tube has 10 ribs and is long and free from the style. The sepals are free from each other, egg-shaped to more or less round, long and wide. The petals are white to pink, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or lance-shaped, long and wide and there are about 20 to 30 white stamens in a single row. Flowering from October to April.
Taxonomy
This species was first described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Lhotskya glaberrima in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected on Kangaroo Island. In 1987, Lyndley Craven transferred the species to Calytrix as C. glaberrima in the journal Brunonia. The specific epithet means 'wholly glabrous'.
Calytrix glaberrima grows in heathy scrub on sand and ridges on the southern Mount Lofty Range and on Kangaroo Island in the south of South Australia.