Micromyrtus redita

Micromyrtus redita is species of the flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a densely branched shrub with narrowly oblong to elliptic leaves, reddish sepals and white or pink petals.

Description

Micromyrtus redits is a densely-branched shrub. Its leaves are narrowly oblong to elliptic, long, about wide on a petiole about long with 2 to 6 prominent glands on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in upper leaf axils on a peduncle long and are about in diameter. The 5 sepals are long and wide and reddish. The petals are widely spreading when in flower, white or tinged with pink, long and the anthers are about long and the style is about long.

Taxonomy

Micromyrtus redita was first formally described in 2006 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near Wongan Hills. The specific epithet means "returned", referring to the fact that the type specimens were once lost.

Distribution

This species of micromyrtus grows in the Avon Wheatbelt and Coolgardie bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

Micromyrtus redita is listed as "Priority One" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.