Calytrix gypsophila

Species of plant

Calytrix gypsophila

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

C. gypsophila

Binomial name
Calytrix gypsophila

Craven

Calytrix gypsophila, commonly known as the gypsum fringle-myrtle,[1] is a species of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.[2]

The shrub typically grows to a height of 2 metres (7 ft). It usually blooms between February to September producing white flowers.[2] Later it will produce a long cylindrical fruit approximately 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long and 2 mm (0.079 in) wide, with fan-shaped wings and awns at one end. Inside a small ovoid seed sits in the long section of the fruit.[1]

Found on plains, around salt lakes and on clay pans often with samphires in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and into central and western South Australia where it grows on gypseous sand or loam soils.[2][1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Lyndley Craven in 1987 in the article A taxonomic revision of Calytrix Labill. (Myrtaceae) in the journal Brunonia.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Calytrix gypsophila (Myrtaceae) Gypsum Fringe-myrtle". Seeds of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
2. ^ a b c "Calytrix gypsophila". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
3. ^ "Calytrix gypsophila Craven". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 20 February 2017.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q15395388
* APNI: 103917
* CoL: Q869
* EoL: 5455506
* FloraBase: 19120
* GBIF: 3185037
* iNaturalist: 980991
* IPNI: 933264-1
* Open Tree of Life: 3933847
* Plant List: kew-32848
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:933264-1
* Tropicos: 100158892
* WFO: wfo-0000789908

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