Calytrix platycheiridia
Calytrix platycheiridia is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped leaves and cream-coloured flowers with about 35 to 50 yellow stamens in several rows.
Description
Calytrix platycheiridia is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are overlapping to closely spaced, egg-shaped, long and wide and sessile or on a petiole up to long. The flowers are borne on a flattened peduncle long with lobes long. The floral tube is long, wide with eight to ten ribs. The sepals are oblong, long and wide. The petals are cream-coloured with a yellow base, egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide, and there are about 35 to 50 yellow stamens in two or three rows. Flowering occurs in October.
Taxonomy
Calytrix platycheiridia was first formally described in 1987 by Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected west of Coorow in 1981. The specific epithet means 'wide- or broad-glove', referring to the bracteoles.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Calytrix grows sandy soils on low ridges in the Coorow-Watheroo district.
Conservation status
Calytrix platycheiridia is listed as "Priority Two" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and from one or a few locations.