Babingtonia minutifolia 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 an erect, widely spreading shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and pale pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils, each flower with 16 to 19 stamens in a circle.
Babingtonia minutifolia is an erect, widely spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has very slender branches. The leaves are mostly narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in singly in leaf axils on a peduncle long with bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long and wide pink, or sometimes absent. The petals are pale pink, long with 16 to 19 stamens in a circle. The ovary has three locules and the style is long. Flowering occurs from late September to December, and the fruit is a capsule long and in diameter.[1]
Babingtonia minutifolia was first formally described in 2015 by Barbara Rye and Malcolm Trudgen in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected south of Bunjil in 1981.[2] The specific epithet (minutifolia) means "very small leaves".
This species grows on rock outcrops in the area between Perenjori, Carnamah and Bunjil in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of south-western Western Australia.
Babingtonia minutifolia 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.[3]