Name derivation uncertain.

Medium-sized shrubs. Leaves small, entire. Flowers in terminal clusters or axillary and stalked. Flower base cup-shaped and often ribbed. Sepals 5 and sometimes small. Petals 5. Stamens united shortly at the base, 10 fertile alternating with 10 infertile. Ovary with 1 chamber containing 4-8 ovules. Fruit a nut with persistent sepals.

Grown for the attractive waxy flowers and fine foliage.

23 species from SW WA.

Cuttings.

Grown commercially for the cut flower industry.

Ovary 1-chambered; fruit indehiscent; stamens united in a ring, 10 fertile alternating with 10 sterile. Darwinia has erect petals shorter than the style and anthers opening by pores, not slits.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.