Calytrix pimeleoides
Calytrix pimeleoides is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with overlapping narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow flowers with 35 to 50 stamens in several rows.
Description
Calytrix pimeleoides is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows up to high and wide and has glabrous branchlets. Its leaves are overlapping, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are borne on a glabrous peduncle long with narrowly egg-shaped lobes long. The floral tube is about long and more or less cylindrical with four ribs. The sepal lobes are absent. The petals are yellow, narrowly elliptic to oblong, long and about wide, and there are about 35 to 50 stamens in several rows. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Taxonomy
Calytrix pimeleoides was first formally described in 2004 by Gregory John Keighery in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Charles Gardner in 1961. The specific epithet means 'Pimelea-like', referring to the overlapping leaves of some Pimelea species, such as P. ammocharis and P. argentea.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Calytrix grows on deep yellow sand, usually under Banksia woodland in scattered locations between Kalbarri National Park and Northampton in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion of Western Australia.
Conservation status
Calytrix pimeleoides is listed as " "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.