''Calothamnus schaueri'' is a plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, spreading, sometimes prostrate shrub, growing to a height of about with cylindrical leaves long. It has brownish red flowers from August to December.
The flowers have 4 petals and 4 narrow bundles of stamens. (In 2014 Lyndley Craven, Craven, Edwards and Cowley proposed that the species be renamed ''Melaleuca planifolia''.)
''Calothamnus schaueri'' was first formally described by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Johann Lehmmann in 1842 in ''Delectus Seminum quae in Horto Hamburgensium botanico e collectione''.
The Botanical name, specific epithet (''schaueri'') honours Johannes Conrad Schauer, Johannes Schauer.
''Calothamnus schaueri'' occurs near Albany, Western Australia, Albany in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren (biogeographic region), Warren biogeographic regions
where it grows in swamps near granite outcrops.
''Calothamnus schaueri'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian government department of parks and wildlife.
References
Calothamnus, schaueri
Myrtales of Australia
Plants described in 1842
Endemic flora of Western Australia
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