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Family: Myrtaceae
Thryptomene micrantha

Citation: Hook. f., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5:299 (1853).

Synonymy: T. miqueliana F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:11 (1858).

Common name: Ribbed thryptomene, heather bush.

Description:
Shrub, erect, 0.5-1 m high; leaves broadly obovate-oblong, slightly concave above, c. 5 mm long, margins entire, minutely petiolate; peduncles almost 1 mm long.

Flowers solitary; hypanthium 10-ribbed when dry, subcylindrical, c. 2 mm long; sepals and petals ovate, white, c. 1 mm long, the buds sometimes pinkish; stamens 5, opposite the sepals; gland on the anther connective prominent; ovules 2; ovary small, near the summit of the tube.

Published illustration: Costermans (1981) Trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 252.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, YP, SL.   Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Feb., July — Oct.


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