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Family: Myrtaceae
Micromyrtus flaviflora

Citation: F. Muell. ex J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 424 (1926).

Synonymy: Thryptomene flaviflora F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:13 (1873). , Micromyrtus trachycalyx

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub, spreading to erect, 0.3-1.5 m high; leaves obovate-oblong, 1-2 x 0.5-1 mm, sessile, somewhat glaucous, the margins minutely denticulate; peduncles 1.5-2.5 mm long, exceeding the leaves.

Hypanthium granular-muricate, often eccentrically swollen, obscurely 5-angled, c. 2.5 x 1.5 mm; sepals semi-orbicular, petaloid, entire, c. 0.9 mm long; petals orbicular, yellow, c. 2 mm diam.; stamens 5, opposite the petals; ovules 7-10, collateral; ovary small, near the summit of the tube.

Published illustration: Green (1980) Nuytsia 3:202.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Jan., April — Nov.


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