Homoranthus tropicus

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

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]

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] The specific epithet (tropicus) is a Latin word meaning "a turning" or "solstice".[6]

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.
  4. 1 2 3 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.
  6. ↑ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 815.
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