Babingtonia delicata is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with erect stems, linear leaves and bright pink flowers in groups of up to three, each flower with 4 to 8 stamens.
Babingtonia delicata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of, and has slender, erect stems. The leaves are sometimes densely clustered, linear, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to three on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel up to long. The sepals are about long and wide and the petals are bright pink, long. There are 4 to 8 stamens in each flower. The ovary has a single locule and the style is long. Flowering occurs in November and December, and the fruit is a capsule long and wide.[1]
Babingtonia delicata was first formally described in 2015 by Barbara Rye and Malcolm Trudgen in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near Cataby in 2004.[2] The specific epithet (delicata) means "dainty", referring to the form of the plant and its small, attractive flowers.[3]
This species mostly grows in sandy soils in low-lying, winter-wet areas near Cataby, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Babingtonia delicata 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 that are potentially at risk.[4]