Calytrix merrelliana

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Calytrix merrelliana

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Myrtales
Family:  | Myrtaceae
Genus:  | Calytrix
Species:  |

C. merrelliana

Binomial name
Calytrix merrelliana

(F.Muell. & Tate) Craven

Calytrix merrelliana is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.[1]

The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.25 metres (0.3 to 0.8 ft). It usually blooms between October and January producing purple-violet star-shaped flowers.[1]

Found on undulating plains where the Wheatbelt adjoins the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia between Kondinin and Coolgardie where it grows on sandy soils.

The species was first formally described as Lhotzkya violacea var. merrelliana  by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller and R. Tate in 1896 in the work Botany. Phanerogams and Vascular Cryptogams. Transactions and proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia. It was reclassified in the genus Calytrix by Lyndley Craven in 1987 in the article A taxonomic revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae) in the journal Brunonia.[2]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Calytrix merrelliana". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/5466.
2. ↑ "Calytrix merrelliana (F.Muell. & Tate) Craven". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2916012#names. Retrieved 22 February 2017.

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