Kunzea micromera

Description

Kunzea micromera is a flowering plant in the myrtle family,Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia.The sparse shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1.5 metres (1 to 5 ft).It blooms between August and October producing pink-purple flowers.Often found in wet depressions and the margins of swamps in the southern Wheatbelt,South West,Great Southern and southern Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy or clay soils.The species was first formally described by the botanist Johannes Conrad Schauer in 1848 in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's work Plantae Preissianae.The name is often misapplied to Kunzea jucunda.