Thryptomene calycina

Thryptomene calycina, commonly known as Grampians thryptomene, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with oblong, elliptic or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end toward the base, and white flowers with five stamens.

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Thryptomene calycina is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). Its leaves are oblong to elliptic or egg-shaped with the narrower end toward the base, 5–14 mm (0.20–0.55 in) long, 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide and sessile with a keel on the lower surface. The flowers are borne singly, in pairs or groups of three in upper leaf axils on a pedicel 2–6 mm (0.079–0.236 in) long. The flowers are often pinkish in bud, the sepals and petals similar to each other, white, broadly elliptic, about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long and there are five stamens. Flowering mostly occurs from July to November.

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