Micromyrtus rogeri is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is shrub with egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers with 10 stamens.
Micromyrtus rogeri is a shrub that typically grows to a height of with many erect stems arising from a lignotuber. Its leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide on a petiole long with 8 to 10 prominent oil glands on the lower surface. The flowers are borne in racemes of 3 to 8 in leaf axils near the ends of branches on a peduncle long with egg-shaped, pale brown, toothed bracteoles about long. The flowers are about in diameter with sepals long. The petals are white, about long with 10 stamens in each flower. Flowering occurs from July to October.[1]
Micromyrtus rogeri was first formally described in 2002 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Roger Hnatiuk about west-north-west of Arrino in 1980.[2] The specific epithet (rogeri) honours Hnatiuk, the collector of the Type specimens.
This species of micromyrtus grows in sandy soils and gravel over laterite on breakaways near Arrino and Koojan in the Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Micromyrtus rogeri is listed as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk.[3]