Calectasia

Calectasia
Calectasia intermedia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Dasypogonaceae
Genus: Calectasia
R.Br.[1]
Synonyms[1]

Scaryomyrtus F.Muell.

Calectasia is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants in the family Dasypogonaceae and is endemic to south-western Australia. Plants is this genus are small, erect shrubs with branched stems covered by leaf sheaths. The flowers are star-shaped, lilac-blue to purple and arranged singly on the ends of short branchlets.

Illustration of Calectasia cyanea from Curtis's Botanical Magazine[2]
  1. ^ a b "Calectasia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Calectasis cyanea". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 67: 3834. 1841. Retrieved 15 October 2021.