Calytrix brevifolia

Calytrix brevifolia is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with egg-shaped, linear, elliptic or more or less round leaves and clusters of pink to magenta flowers with about 40 to 90 yellow stamens in 4 rows.

Description
Calytrix brevifolia is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2.5 m. Its leaves are egg-shaped, linear, elliptic or more or less round, 13–14 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm wide and sessile or on a petiole up to 1.25 mm long. There are stipules up to 0.3 mm long at the base of the petioles. The floral tube is 12–23 mm long, fused to the style and has 10 ribs. The sepals are joined for up to 0.5 mm at the base, the lobes 1.5–3 mm long with an awn up to 29 mm long. The petals are pink to magenta with a yellow base, egg-shaped, lance-shaped or broadly elliptic, 8–11.5 mm long and 4.0–6.5 mm wide with 40 to 90 yellow stamens in 4 rows, each 2.5–8 mm long. Flowering usually occurs from September to November.

Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1857 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name Calycothrix brevifolia in Journal of the Proceeding of the Linnean Society, Botany from specimens collected by James Drummond. In 1867, George Bentham transferred the species to the genus Calytrix as C. brevifolia.

Distribution and habitat
This species of Calytrix is found from Shark Bay to the Geraldton-Mullewa district in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia. It grows in heath and woodland in sand on sandplains.