Calytrix rupestris
Calytrix rupestris is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north of the Northern Territory. It is a shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic, or lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers with about 16 to 22 white stamens in a single row.
Description
Calytrix rupestris is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, its young branchlets covered with soft, white hairs. Its leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, or lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a hairy petiole long. There are stipules up to long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are borne on a peduncle long with egg-shaped bracteoles long. The floral tube is free from the style, long and has ten ribs. The sepals are fused at the base, with egg-shaped lobes long and wide. The petals are glabrous and white, elliptic to broadly elliptic, long and wide, and there are about 16 to 22 white stamens. Flowering occurs from March to June.
Taxonomy
Calytrix rupestris was first formally described in 1980 by Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens he collected on Mount Brockman in Kakadu National Park in 1980. The specific epithet means 'rocky'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Calytrix grows in crevices on dissected sandstone and on sandstone cliffs in the Arnhem Plateau and Pine Creek bioregions in the Northern Territory.
Conservation status
Calytrix mimiana is listed as of "near threatened" under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.