Homoranthus brevistylis

Homoranthus brevistylis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Homoranthus
Species: H. brevistylis
Binomial name
Homoranthus brevistylis

Homoranthus brevistylis is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in Queensland. It is an upright shrub with pointed, linear leaves and with groups of up to four pale yellow flowers in leaf axils. It is only known from the Blackdown Tableland National Park.[2]

Description

An ascending shrub 0.2–0.4 m (0.7–1 ft) tall, 0.5–2 m (2–7 ft) wide. Leaves dull grey-green, opposite and aromatic. Peak flowering in spring but have been recorded from May to September. [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Homoranthus brevistylis was first formally described in 2011 by Lachlan Copeland, Lyndley Craven and Jeremy Bruhl from a specimen collected on the Blackdown Tableland in 2000 and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany.[3] The specific epithet (brevistylis) is derived from the Latin word brevis meaning "short"[4]:708 and the Ancient Greek word stylos meaning "pillar" or "column",[4]:767 referring to the short style of this species.[2]

Distribution and habitat

Found in a single population ~100km south-east of Emerald, Queensland, H. brevistylis grow in skeletal, sandy soil in crevices of sandy outcrops.[2]

Conservation status

Due to its small population a ROTAP conservation code 2ECit using Briggs and Leigh criteria (1996). IUCN (2010) 'Endangered'.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Homoranthus brevistylis". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Copeland, Lachlan M.; Craven, Lyn A.; Bruhl, Jeremy J. (2011). "A taxonomic review of Homoranthus (Myrtaceae:Chamelaucieae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 24 (6): 363–364.
  3. ↑ "Homoranthus brevistylis". APNI. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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