Thryptomene micrantha
Ribbed ThryptomeneSpreading to erect shrub, 0.5–1.5 m high. Leaves obovate, 4–6 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, shortly petiolate, slightly concave above, not keeled below; apex rounded. Flowers white, sometimes pinkish in bud, 1–3 in upper leaf axils; pedicel to 1 mm long; hypanthium more or less cylindric, c. 2 mm long, smooth, ribs 10, prominent; sepals slightly larger than petals, ovate, 1–2 mm long; petals ovate, c. 1 mm long; stamens 5, filaments less than 0.5 mm long; ovary small, near summit of tube; ovules 2. Flowers mainly Aug.–Nov.
VVP, GipP, GGr, HSF. Also SA, Tas. In Victoria found mostly in heath or heathy woodland on sandy soils near the Gippsland Lakes (e.g. Sperm Whale Head), but with isolated occurrences in low shrubland on exposed rocky slopes north of Licola. Old records from the Grampians, and a 2003 collection from the lower Glenelg River area link the eastern Victorian occurrences to those of South Australia, but the status of these intervening populations requires further investigation.
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Myrtaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 942–1044. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
