Homoranthus tropicus

Homoranthus tropicus is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to tropical north Queensland. It is a shrub with curved, club-shaped leaves and white flowers in a corymbose-like arrangement on the ends of branchlets.[2][3]

Homoranthus tropicus
Homoranthus tropicus in the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Homoranthus
Species:
H. tropicus
Binomial name
Homoranthus tropicus
Occurrence data from AVH

Description

Flowers and fruits sporadically throughout the year, primarily February to July.[4]

Taxonomy and naming

Homoranthus tropicus was first formally described in 1981 by Norman Byrnes from a specimen he collected north of Laura in 1975 and the description was published in Austrobaileya.[5]

Distribution and habitat

Grows in northern Queensland in heath or shrubby woodland on shallow rocky soils over sandstone.[4]

Conservation status

Restricted distribution and considered rare by Briggs and Leigh (1996) given a ROTAP conservation code of 2R.[4]

References
  1. "Homoranthus tropicus". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  2. Byrnes, Norman (1981). "Notes on the genus Homoranthus (Myrtaceae) in Australia". Austrobaileya. 1 (4): 375.
  3. Copeland, Lachlan M.; Craven, Lyn A.; Bruhl, Jeremy J. (2011). "A taxonomic review of Homoranthus (Myrtaceae:Chamelaucieae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 24 (6): 371. doi:10.1071/SB11015.
  4. Copeland, Lachlan M.; Craven, Lyn A.; Bruhl, Jeremy J. (2011). "A taxonomic review of Homoranthus (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 24 (6): 351. doi:10.1071/SB11015.
  5. "Homoranthus tropicus". APNI. Retrieved 25 August 2018.


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