Calytrix verticillata
Calytrix verticillata 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 or lance-shaped leaves and white flowers with about 18 to 20 stamens in a single row.
Description
Calytrix verticillata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has branchlets covered with soft hairs. 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 peduncle long, the floral tube is more or less spindle-shaped or cylindrical, long and has ten ribs. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, wide and lack an awn but with a pointed tip. The petals are white, elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide, and there are about 18 to 20 stamens in a single row, the filaments white and long. Flowering occurs from June to October and the seed is long and wide.
Taxonomy
Calytrix verticillata was first formally described in 1987 by the botanist Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens he collected west of Katherine in 1977.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Calytrix is found in the Katherine district on sandstone in spinifex woodland and on lateritic slopes in the Daly Basin, Darwin Coastal, Gulf Fall and Uplands and Pine Creek bioregions of the Northern Territory.
Conservation status
Calytrix verticillata is listed as of "least concern" under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.