''Homoranthus flavescens'' is a plant in the myrtle family
Myrtaceae and is
endemic
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to northern
New South Wales
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. 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.
Description
''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.
Fruits September-December.
Taxonomy and naming
''Homoranthus flavescens'' was first formally described in 1843 by
Johannes Conrad Schauer
Johannes Conrad Schauer (16 February 1813 – 24 October 1848) was a botanist interested in Spermatophytes. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and attended the gymnasium of Mainz from 1825 to 1837. For the next three years he worked at the Hofgar ...
from an unpublished description by
Allan Cunningham. The description was published in ''Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum''.
The
specific epithet (''flavescens'') is the
incipient form
of the
Latin
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word ''flavus'' meaning "yellow" or "golden yellow".
Distribution and habitat
Grows from
Yetman in far northern New South Wales to
Dubbo and
Merriwa districts. Grows most commonly on sandstone in shrubby woodland or heath.
Conservation status
Widespread, often locally common and well reserved.
References
External links
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium – Occurrence data for ''Homoranthus flavescens''
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flavescens
Flora of New South Wales
Myrtales of Australia
Plants described in 1843