About Calytrix exstipulata DC.
Calytrix exstipulata DC. is most often an erect shrub that usually grows up to 2 meters (6 feet 7 inches) tall, and rarely reaches tree form at up to 4.5 meters (15 feet) tall. It produces sessile, narrowly egg-shaped to linear leaves that measure 1–3.5 mm long and 0.25–1 mm wide. Flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils, with bracteoles around 7 mm long that are joined for roughly two-thirds of their length. The floral tube is cylindrical, dark red, glabrous, usually marked with 10 ribs, and 8–13 mm long. Sepals are more or less round, dark red, 10–12 mm in size, and bear a fine awn around 8 mm long. Petals are pink with a white base, around 10 mm long and narrowly elliptic, and the species has around 30 pink stamens that are white at the base. Commonly called turkey bush, this species is very common in the monsoon region of northern Australia. It occurs from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, through the northern half of the Northern Territory, and extends as far east as the Gregory Range in Queensland. It grows in a wide variety of habitats, including eucalyptus and cypress pine woodland and forest.
