Calytrix verruculosa
Calytrix verruculosa is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with linear or lance-shaped leaves and white or pink flowers with about 22 to 27 stamens in a single row.
Description
Calytrix verruculosa is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of and has minutely rough branchlets. It usually grows from the tips of the flowering stems. Its leaves are linear to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long, with stipules up to long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are on a more or less spindle-shaped peduncle long with elliptic to egg-shaped lobes long. The floral tube is spindle-shaped, long and has ten ribs. The sepals are egg-shaped, long, wide with an awn up to long. The petals are pink or white, elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide, and there are about 22 to 27 stamens in a single row, the filaments long. Flowering occurs in October.
Taxonomy
Calytrix verruculosa was first formally described in 1987 by the botanist Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected north of Meekatharra.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Calytrix is found in the Meekatharra district on hardpan plains with sparse mulga, in the Murchison bioregion of inland Western Australia.
Conservation status
Calytrix verruculosa 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.