Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:77 (1867).

Synonymy: B. microphylla Sieber ex Sprengel var. ericaea F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:31 (1858).

Common name: Mat heath-myrtle, mat baeckea.

Description:
Subshrub, prostrate or erect, to 30 cm tall; leaves 4-ranked, almost imbricate, occasionally not crowded, widest at the base or broad-lanceolate, 0.7-3 mm long, concavo-convex or semi-elliptic, or almost trigonous.

Flowers solitary, 5-6 mm across, sessile, with 2 or 3 very broadly boat-shaped scarious keeled and pointed bracteoles clasping the hypanthium; hypanthium hemispherical; calyx-lobes thin, indistinctly 3-veined; petals white to pale-mauve; stamens 15, in groups of 3 opposite the petals; filaments straight, anther loculi not fused, opening in parallel slits; ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules per cell.

seeds reniform.

Distribution:  Recorded from a range of habitats including sand dunes and heaths.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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