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Homoranthus floydii - profile

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Scientific name: Homoranthus floydii
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Vulnerable
Gazetted date: 01 Jul 2022
Profile last updated: 14 Oct 2024

Description

Shrub to 1.5 m tall, erect. Leaves 5-10 mm long, 1-1.5 mm thick, the width less than the thickness; blade in side view scimitar-shaped to narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, in transverse section sublinear, the adaxial surface flat; subsessile. Flowers 1-2, on undifferentiated branchlets; peduncles 9-16 mm long; bracteoles caducous, 7.5- 9 nm long, Hypanthium 5-costate, glabrous or with multicellular trichomes between the subacutely angled costae on the ovarian region, 7-8 mm long; ovarian region 2- 2.5 mm wide. Sepals 1.5-3 mm long, the apex long acuminate, the margin distally entire. Petals broadly elliptic, or broadly obovate, 1.3-2 mm long, the margin entire. Style 8.5-9 mm long. Ovules 6-8.

L. A. Craven A and S. R. Jones (1991) A Taxonomic Review of Homoranthus and Two New Species of Darwinia (both Myrtaceae, Chamelaucieae). Australian journal of Systematic Botany. 4 (3)513-33.

 

Distribution

Homoranthus floydii is restricted to a small area of the north coast of New South Wales, where it grows in outcropping sandstone sites,  The species is endemic to Clarence sandstones Bioregion of the South East Queensland Bioregion. It occurs in Sherwood Nature Reserve, Tallawudjah Nature Reserve and freehold land in the McGills area, north of Glenreagh. 


Habitat and ecology

  • Dry Sclerophyll Forest on sandstone

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IBRA Bioregion IBRA Subregion Known or predicted Geographic restrictions region
South Eastern QueenslandClarence Sandstones Known South of the Clarence River.