Calytrix faucicola is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a mostly glabrous shrub with spreading egg-shaped or linear leaves, and pale yellow flowers with about 35 to 45 stamens in several rows.
Calytrix faucicola is a mostly glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are egg-shaped to linear, long, wide and sessile or on a petiole up to long. There are stipules up to long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are scattered and borne on a peduncle long with egg-shaped lobes long, and the floral tube is long with 10 ribs. The sepals are free from each other, the lobes more or less egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with an awn up to long. The petals are pale yellow, the base turning reddish later, narrowly elliptic to more or less linear, long and wide. There are about 35 to 45 pale yellow stamens long in several rows, and turning reddish as the flowers open.[1]
Calytrix faucicola was first formally described in 1987 by Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected at Edith Falls in 1967.[2] The specific epithet (faucicola) means 'gorge-inhabiting'.[3]
This species of Calytrix grows in Kakadu National Park and Nitmiluk National Park in the Katherine district.[4]