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Family: Myrtaceae
Thryptomene calycina

Citation: Stapf, Curtis's Bot. Mag. 149:sub. t. 8995 (1924).

Synonymy: Baeckea calycina Lindley in T.L. Mitchell, Three Exped. Int. eastern Austral. 2:190 (1838); Paryphantha mitchelliana Schauer, Linnaea 17:236 (1843); T. mitchelliana (Schauer)F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:11 (1858).

Common name: Grampians thryptomene.

Description:
Shrub, erect, spreading, to 2 m high; leaves elliptic, flat, 5-10 x 2-4 mm, sessile, margins entire.

Flowers 1-3 in the upper axils; peduncles to 2.5 mm long; hypanthium smooth, obconical, 2-4 mm long, usually deeply indented just above the ovary (see Ewart's illustration); ribs 5, faint; sepals broadly elliptic, petaloid, white at anthesis, pinkish in bud, c. 1.5 mm long; petals resembling the sepals, white; stamens 5, opposite the sepals; gland on the anther connective prominent; ovules 2; ovary small, near the summit of the tube.

Published illustration: Ewart (1931) Flora of Victoria, p. 874; Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of southeastern Australia, p. 253.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU, SE.   Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: July — Nov.


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