About Calytrix fraseri A.Cunn.
Calytrix fraseri is a mostly hairless shrub that usually grows 0.2 to 1 meter tall, and may occasionally reach up to 2 meters in height. Its leaves take oblong, linear, broadly elliptic, or elliptic shapes that narrow toward the base, are typically 0.8 to 5 millimeters long and 0.8 to 1.5 millimeters wide, and are either stalkless or attached to a petiole no longer than 0.5 millimeters. Stipules up to 0.75 millimeters long grow at the base of each leaf. Flowers are held on a 0.5 to 2.5 millimeter long peduncle, with oblong to egg-shaped bracteoles that measure 2 to 4.5 millimeters long. The floral tube is 7 to 18 millimeters long and marked with 10 ribs. The sepals are fused at the base for up to 0.75 millimeters, with elliptic to broadly elliptic lobes that are 1.0 to 2.25 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.75 millimeters wide, and bear an awn up to 18 millimeters long. The petals are pink, cerise, or pinkish purple with a yellow base, measuring 6 to 14 millimeters long and 2.0 to 5.3 millimeters wide. Around 35 to 55 stamens arranged in multiple rows are present in each flower. Flowering typically occurs between November and August. This species, commonly known as pink summer calytrix, grows on sandplains, coastal dunes, and granite outcrops. It occurs between Horrocks Beach and Bunbury, and extends inland as far as Kondinin, across the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
