''Calytrix achaeta'', commonly known as the white-flowered turkey bush, kerosene wood or fringe-myrtle, is a species of plant in the myrtle family

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that is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. The shrub or small tree typically grows to a height of . It blooms between January and August producing white flowers forming seeds after the plant is about 10 years of age. It has a lifespan of 11 to 20 years and forms a lignotuber from which it is able to resprout from following a fire. Often found on flats or hills in the

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region of Western Australia and the Top End of the Northern Territory where it grows in sandy soils over laterite, quartzite or granite. The Kunwinjku peoples know the plant as mandjumbak and the Kundjeyhmi know it as andjumbak. Indigenous Australians used the wood from the plant to make fish hooks, spearthrower pegs and for firewood. The species was originally described as ''Lhotzkya cuspidata'' by the

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Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

in 1856 in the work ''North Australian Botany.'' published in ''

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'' then as ''

Calycothrix ''Calytrix'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1806. They are commonly known as starflowers. ''Calytrix'' are endemic to Australia, occurring in the ( Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, an ...

achaeta'' in 1859 in ''Diagnostic notes on new or imperfectly known Australian plants.'' published in the ''Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria''. It was subsequently reclassified as ''Calythrix achaeta'' by Bentham then ''Calythrix cuspidata'' by Druce and finally as ''Calytrix achaeta'' by George Bentham in 1867 in ''Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.'' as part of the work '' Flora Australiensis''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15395282 Plants described in 1867 achaeta Flora of Western Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller