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Thryptomene hexandra C.T.White
Family Myrtaceae
Thryptomene hexandra C.T.White APNI*

Description: Spreading, much-branched shrub to 2 m high, glabrous.

Leaves linear to lanceolate, 5–6 mm long and 1–1.5 mm wide, apex obtuse or with a very small mucro.

Flowers solitary, occasionally in twos or threes, in upper axils and forming spike-like terminal clusters; peduncles < 1 mm long. Hypanthium urceolate to campanulate, prominently 10-ribbed. Sepals and petals c. 0.8 mm long, white. Stamens 6, opposite sepals, occasionally with an additional 1 or 2 opposite petals; anthers with an urceolate connective gland. Ovules 2, collateral on a ± basal placenta.

Fruit only slightly enlarged from the flower; seeds 1 or 2.


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Flowering: winter–spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in mulga woodland on stony hillsides or ridges; north from Bourke.
NSW subdivisions: NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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