Description: Shrubs.
Leaves alternate [or opposite or whorled]; stipules if present very small.
Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered, pedunculate with a pair of persistent or caducous, free or fused bracteoles. Flowers 5-merous, white, pink, yellow or purple. Hypanthium usually long and tubular. Calyx lobes spreading, usually long-attenuate or awned, persistent in fruits and turning a dark red to purple. Petals free. Stamens numerous in one or more series. Ovary inferior, 1-locular; placenta ± basal, ovules 2 or rarely 3 or 4; stigma usually small; style usually persistent.
Fruit dry, indehiscent, enclosed in persistent hypanthium and calyx; seed solitary.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 87 species, endemic to Australia: all States.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Petals white to pink, 3.5–7.5 mm long; stamens 1-seriate | Calytrix tetragona |
| Petals pink to mauve, 8–12 mm long; stamens 2-seriate | Calytrix longiflora |
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