Biology:Calytrix watsonii

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Calytrix watsonii
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Calytrix
Species:
C. watsonii
Binomial name
Calytrix watsonii
(F.Muell. & Tate) C.A.Gardner[1][2]

Calytrix watsonii is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.[3]

Found in a scattered area from the eastern Mid West region near Wiluna south into the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia around Menzies where it grows in sandy and gravelly soils.

Taxonomy

The plant was initially described by Ferdinand von Mueller and Ralph Tate in 1896 as Calycothrix watsonii,[4] and was transferred in 1931 to the genus, Calytrix, by Charles Austin Gardner.[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Calytrix watsonii". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/104332. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gardner, C.A. (1931) Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 96
  3. "Calytrix watsonii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/9138. 
  4. Mueller, F.J.H. von & Tate, R. (1896). "Botany. Phanerogams and Vascular Cryptogams". Transactions, Proceedings and Report, Royal Society of South Australia 16 (3): 355. 

Wikidata ☰ Q29026089 entry