Micromyrtus erichsenii is a species of the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with small, egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white or cream-coloured flowers in diameter and 5 to 10 stamens.
Micromyrtus erichsenii is an erect shrub that typically grows to high. Its leaves are erect to almost pressed against the stem, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are about in diameter, and arranged in up to 9 upper leaf axils on a peduncle long with egg-shaped bracteoles long but that fall off as the flower opens. The sepals are broadly egg-shaped, wide and the petals are white or cream-coloured, broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and long. There are 5 to 10 stamens, the anthers about long. Flowering occurs between February and November and the fruit is long and wide containing a single seed.[1]
Micromyrtus erichsenii was first formally described in 1905 by William Hensley in Hooker's Icones Plantarum from specimens collected near Dedari.[2] [3] The specific epithet (erichsenii) honours Frederick Ole Erickson.[4]
This species grows on sandplains in shrubland or open woodland between Merredin, Coolgardie, Newdegate and Norseman.