''Enekbatus cryptandroides'' is a shrub endemic to

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. The dense shrub typically grows to a height of and blooms between September and October producing pink-white flowers. The species shares features with ''

Enekbatus clavifolius ''Enekbatus clavifolius'' is a shrub endemic to Western Australia. The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of and blooms between July and September producing pink-purple flowers. The species shares features with ''Enekbatus cryptandroid ...

'', both of which have to have ten

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s that are oppositely arranged to the

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s and petals. They also have tuberculate and usually often fruit containing many smooth seeds partly covered by an adherent scurfy layer. It is found in the

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and

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regions of Western Australia between Wiluna and east of

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where it grows in sandy-clay soils. The species was first formally described as ''

Baeckea ''Baeckea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, all but one endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Baeckea'' are shrubs or small trees with leaves arranged in opposite pairs, white to deep pink flowers with five s ...

cryptandroides'' by the

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in 1876 as part of the work '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae''. It was reclassified to the ''Enekbatus'' genera in 2010 by Barbara Rye and Malcolm Trudgen in the work ''Enekbatus, a new Western Australian genus of Myrtaceae with a multi-locular indehiscent fruit.'' as published in the journal ''

Nuytsia ''Nuytsia floribunda'' is a hemiparasitic tree found in Western Australia. The species is known locally as moodjar and, more recently, the Christmas tree or Western Australian Christmas tree. The display of intensely bright flowers during the ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Enekbatus cryptandroides cryptandroides Endemic flora of Western Australia Myrtales of Australia Rosids of Western Australia Plants described in 2010 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller