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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
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Homoranthus
Species:	H. flavescens
Binomial name
Homoranthus flavescens A.Cunn. ex Schauer[1]
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
Darwinia flavescens A.Cunn. ex Schauer Enosanthes flavescens A.Cunn. ex Schauer

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.[2] Fruits September-December.[5]

Taxonomy and naming

Homoranthus flavescens was first formally described in 1843 by Johannes Conrad Schauer from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham.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

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.[5]

Conservation status

Widespread, often locally common and well reserved.[5]

References

External links

• The Australasian Virtual Herbarium – Occurrence data for Homoranthus flavescens

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