Homoranthus flavescens | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Myrtaceae |
Genus: | Homoranthus |
Species: | H. flavescens
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Binomial name | |
Homoranthus flavescens | |
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Occurrence data from AVH | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Homoranthus flavescens is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It is a low, spreading, flat-topped shrub with cylinder-shaped or flattened leaves. Single yellow to reddish flowers appear in leaf axils in late spring and summer, forming clusters near the end of the branchlets. [2] [3] [4]
Homoranthus flavescens grow to 0.5 metres high and 1 metre in width and have leaves are 6 to 10 mm long and up to 1.5 mm in width. Yellow flowers appear in late spring and summer. [2] Fruits September-December. [5]
Homoranthus flavescens was first formally described in 1843 by Johannes Conrad Schauer from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. The description was published in Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum. [6] [7] The specific epithet (flavescens) is the incipient form [8]: 44 of the Latin word flavus meaning "yellow" or "golden yellow". [8]: 872
Grows from Yetman in far northern New South Wales to Dubbo and Merriwa districts. Grows most commonly on sandstone in shrubby woodland or heath. [5]
Widespread, often locally common and well reserved. [5]