Micromyrtus
(from mikros, small, and Myrtos, Myrtle; small Myrtles). ORD. Myrtaceae. A genus comprising six species of Heath-like, glabrous, greenhouse shrubs, confined to Australia. Flowers white or pink, small, solitary, and shortly pedicellate or almost sessile in the axils of the leaves; petals five, obovate or orbicular. Leaves opposite, small, entire. Probably the species described below is the only one yet introduced. It requires similar treatment to that recommended for Myrtus.
M. microphylla (small-leaved). fl. white, small, nearly sessile in the upper axils, usually forming little racemes on the smaller branches; petals spreading, persistent or deciduous. 1870. Habit erect or diffuse and much-branched.