Calytrix gomphrenoides is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, multi-stemmed shrub with linear leaves and white flowers turning pink as they age, with 16 to 18 stamens in a single row.
Calytrix gomphrenoides is a glabrous, multistemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has linear leaves that are mostly long and wide on a petiole long. There are stipules up to long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are borne in dense heads of 15 to 40 flowers on the ends of branches on a peduncle about long. There are papery bracteoles long and wide, but that fall off after the flowers open. The floral tube is long, almost free from the style and has 10 ribs. The sepals are joined at the base, more or less round to egg-shaped, long, excludiong an awn long. The petals are white, turning pink on the outside with a dark red base, narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide. There are 16 to 18 white stamens that turn pink, then dark red, long in a single row. Flowering occurs from January to May.[1]
Calytrix gomphrenoides was first formally described in 2009 by Matthew David Barrett and Lyndley Craven in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near falls on a tributary of Bachsten Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1999.[2] The specific epithet (gomphrenoides) refers to the similarity of this species to Gomphrena canescens.
This species of Calytrix grows in shallow sand on sandstone pavements in the ranges aroung the Prince Regent River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Calytrix gomphrenoides is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that is rare or near threatened.[3]