Flora of Victoria

Shrub 0.5–3 m high, erect or spreading; branchlets pubescent to glabrous. Leaves linear to narrowly ovate, thick, crowded, mostly inclined to stem, mainly 1–7 mm long, rarely to 15 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, usually with many scattered, stiff hairs, apex blunt or minutely mucronate. Flowers white or pink, usually profuse, borne in dense clusters in upper leaf axils; bracteoles usually connate and persistent; hypanthium 7–15 mm long, adnate to style for part of its length; calyx-lobes ovate to suborbicular 1–2.5 mm long, apex produced into an awn to 17 mm long; petals elliptic to lanceolate, 3.5–7.5 mm long; stamens 23–45. Flowers mainly Sep.–Feb.

Brid, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HNF, HSF, LoM, MonT, MuF, MuM, NIS, OtP, OtR, RobP, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WPro, Wim. Also WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Widespread, but scattered across most of Victoria particularly in sandy and gravelly soils and on rock outcrops.

A puzzlingly variable species with respect to habit, hairiness and aroma of leaves, flowering period, flower colour, length of awns on sepals etc. Distinctly different forms may occur within the same area (e.g. northern Grampians), and locally the differences may be constant, but when patterns of variation between characters are considered for a wide range of forms, the significance of individual characters appears less convincing. A detailed investigation of the variation within C. tetragona is warranted.

Source: Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Myrtaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Myrtales

family Myrtaceae

genus Calytrix

Higher taxa

species Calytrix tetragona Labill.

Synonyms

Calytrix sullivanii F.Muell.

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Calytrix tetragona in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Calytrix tetragona in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Lowan Mallee	present	native
Murray Mallee	present	native
Wimmera	present	native
Glenelg Plain	present	native
Bridgewater	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Robinvale Plains	present	native
Murray Fans	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native
Northern Inland Slopes	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Wilsons Promontory	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Otway Ranges	present	native
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native
Monaro Tablelands	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
Western Australia
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania

Calytrix tetragona Labill.

Common Fringe-myrtle

Synonyms

Victoria

State distribution