Biology:Calytrix gypsophila

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Calytrix gypsophila
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Calytrix
Species:
C. gypsophila
Binomial name
Calytrix gypsophila
Craven

Calytrix gypsophila, commonly known as the gypsum fringle-myrtle,[1] is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.[2]

The shrub typically grows to a height of 2 metres (7 ft). It usually blooms between February and September producing white flowers.[2] Later it will produce a long cylindrical fruit approximately 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long and 2 mm (0.079 in) wide, with fan-shaped wings and awns at one end. Inside a small ovoid seed sits in the long section of the fruit.[1]

Found on plains, around salt lakes and on clay pans often with samphires in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and into central and western South Australia where it grows on gypseous sand or loam soils.[2][1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Lyndley Craven in 1987 in the article A taxonomic revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae) in the journal Brunonia.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Calytrix gypsophila (Myrtaceae) Gypsum Fringe-myrtle". Seeds of South Australia. Government of South Australia. http://saseedbank.com.au/species_information.php?rid=946. Retrieved 20 February 2017. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Calytrix gypsophila". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/19120. 
  3. "Calytrix gypsophila Craven". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2901947#names. Retrieved 20 February 2017. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15395388 entry