Thryptomene calycina

Shrub 1–3 m high, spreading or erect. Leaves oblong to obovate, 5–14 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, sessile, flat, keeled below; apex obtuse, sometimes with a short recurved point. Flowers white, often pinkish in bud, 1–3 in upper leaf axils; pedicel 2–6 mm long; hypanthium obconical, 2–4 mm long, smooth, ribs 5, faint; sepals and petals similar, broadly elliptic, c. 1.5 mm long; stamens 5, filaments less than 0.5 mm long; ovary small, near summit of tube, ovules 2. Flowers mostly Jul.–Nov.