Micromyrtus albicans

Micromyrtus albicans is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area of south-eastern Queensland. It is a slender shrub with overlapping, egg-shaped leaves and small white flowers.

Description
Micromyrtus albicans is a slender erect shrub that typically grows up to 3 m high and 0.5 m wide and has pendulous branchlets. It leaves overlap each other, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 1.2–2.5 mm long, 0.6–0.9 mm wide and sessile with oil glands. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle 0.5–1 mm long with bracteoles about 0.9 mm long at the base. The sepal lobes are round or oblong, 0.4–0.8 mm long and wide and the petals are white, egg-shaped or round and 1.1–1.4 mm long. There are five stamens, each opposite a petal, the filaments about 0.3 mm long. Flowering occurs throughout the year.

Taxonomy
Micromyrtus albicans was first formally described in 1997 by Anthony Bean in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected near Chinchilla in 1994. The specific epithet (albicans`) means "white" or "becoming white", contrasting the flower colour of this species with the yellow flowers of M. carinata.

Distribution and habitat
This species of micromyrtus grows in woodland and is only known from the north-eastern quarter of the Barakula State Forest near Chincilla in south-eastern Queensland.