Micromyrtus helmsii

Micromyrtus helmsii is a slender or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has slender branchlets. Its leaves are overlapping, decussate, oblong, long and about wide and keeled with several conspicuous oil glands visible on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle up to long. The sepals are more or less round, long and wide and the petals are larger than the sepals and in diameter. There are about 7 stamens, the filaments about long. Flowering has been recorded in September. ==Taxonomy==

This species was first formally described in 1896 by Ferdinand von Mueller and Ralph Tate, who gave it the name Thriptomene helmsii in Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia from specimens collected in the Great Victoria Desert. In 1980, John Green transferred the species to the genus Micromyrtus as M. helmsii. The specific epithet (helmsii) honours Richard Helms. ==Distribution==

Micromyrtus helmsii is only known from the type location in inland Western Australia. ==Conservation status==

This species of micromyrtus is listed as "Priority One" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, ==References==