Micrantheum hexandrum, commonly known as box micrantheum,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, monoecious shrub with oblong to narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and small white flowers with six or nine stamens. Picrodendraceae.
Micrantheum hexandrum is an erect, monoecious, more or less glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of about . The leaves are oblong to narrowly lance-shaped or lance-shaped, with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a small point on the tip. Male flowers are borne on a peduncle about long, the sepals egg-shaped and long, and have six or nine stamens. Female flowers are more or less sessile, the sepals lance-shaped to egg-shaped and long. Flowering mostly occurs from October to February, and the fruit is an oval to spherical capsule long.[2] [3] [4]
Micrantheum hexandrum was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in the London Journal of Botany from specimens collected near Launceston.[5] [6] The specific epithet (hexandrum) means "six stamens".[7]
Box micrantheum grows on rocky sites and near watercourses, often at higher altitudes, from south-eastern Queensland, along the coast and tablelands of New South Wales to scattered places in eastern Victoria and to eastern Tasmania.[8]