Calytrix mimiana is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a glabrous shrub with linear to narrowly lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, deep pink to pinkish-mauve flowers, and about 35 to 40 white stamens in several rows, that turn pinkish as they age.
Calytrix mimiana is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are linear to narrowly lance-shaped, long and wide with the narrower end towards the base on a petiole long. There are stipules up to long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are borne in clusters on a peduncle long with narrowly lance-shaped bracteoles long. The floral tube is free from the style, long and has eight to ten ribs. The sepals are fused at the base, with egg-shaped lobes long and wide, the awn up to long. The petals are deep pink to pinkish-mauve, elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide, and there are about 30 to 35 white stamens that become pinkish after the flowers open. Flowering occurs from January to July.[1]
Calytrix mimiana was first formally described in 1980 by Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens he collected near the Caranbirini Waterhole in 1977.[2]
This species of Calytrix grows in crevices on a sandstone escarpment in the McArthur River district in the Gulf Fall and Uplands bioregion of the Northern Territory.[3]
Calytrix mimiana is listed as of "near threatened" under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.