Calytrix leptophylla explained

Calytrix leptophylla is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a glabrous shrub with linear leaves, and pink to light purple flowers with a white base, and about 35 to 40 white to yellow stamens in several rows.

Description

Calytrix leptophylla is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are linear, long, wide on a petiole long. There are stipules up to long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are borne on a peduncle long with egg-shaped, elliptic or oblong lobes long. The floral tube is mostly free from the style, long and usually has 5 ribs. The sepals are fused at the base, with more or less egg-shaped to round lobes long and about long, with an awn long up to long. The petals are pink to light purple with a white base, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, long and about wide, and there are about 35 to 40 white to yellow stamens in two rows. Flowering occurs from March to November.[1]

Taxonomy

Calytrix leptophylla was first formally described in 1867 by George Bentham in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by Ferdinand von Mueller.[2] [3]

Distribution and habitat

This species of Calytrix grows in callitris country on stony ridges, near a creek, in heathy scrub on sandstone slopes and on granite outcrops from the Coen district to near Hughenden in north Queensland.

Conservation status

Calytrix leptophylla is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Craven . Lyndley . A taxonomic revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae). . Brunonia . 1987 . 75–76.
  2. Web site: Calytrix leptophylla . Australian Plant Name Index . 8 November 2024.
  3. Book: Bentham . George . Flora Australiensis . 1867 . 3 . Lovell Reeves & Co. . London . 50 . 8 November 2024.
  4. Web site: Species profile—Calytrix leptophylla . Queensland Government Department of Education and Science . 9 November 2024.