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Family: Myrtaceae
Thryptomene ericaea

Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:12 (1858).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub 0.5-1.2 m high; leaves narrowly elliptical-acute, plano-convex, c. 6 x 1 mm, sessile, margins entire.

Peduncles 2-3 mm long; hypanthium 10-ribbed, subcylindrical, 2-2.5 mm long; sepals and petals ovate, white, c. 1 mm long; stamens 5, opposite the sepals; gland on the anther connective very prominent; ovules 2; ovary small, near the summit of the tube.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, YP, KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.


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