Homoranthus homoranthoides

Homoranthus homoranthoides is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to South Australia.

Homoranthus homoranthoides
Homoranthus homoranthoides in the Arboretum at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Homoranthus
Species:
H. homoranthoides
Binomial name
Homoranthus homoranthoides
(F.Muell.) Craven & S.R.Jones[1]
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
  • Schuermannia homoranthoides F.Muell.
  • Genetyllis schuermannii F.Muell. nom. superfl.
  • Chamelaucium schuermannii F.Muell. nom. superfl.
  • Darwinia schuermannii Benth. nom. superfl.
  • Darwinia homoranthoides (F.Muell.) J.M.Black

Description

Homoranthus homoranthoides is a distinctive species recognised by its low growing prostrate habit. A shrub with greyish green linear leaves, small pendulous cream coloured flowers which turn red as they age.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Schuermannia homoranthoides and published the description in the journal Linnaea.[4][5] In 1991, Lyndley Craven and S.R.Jones changed the name to Homoranthus homoranthoides.[6] The specific epithet (homoranthoides) refers to the similarity of this species (when named as Schuermannia homoranthoides) to those in the genus Homoranthus. The ending -oides is a Latin suffix meaning "like", "resembling" or "having the form of".[7]

Distribution and habitat

Homoranthus homoranthoides grows in heath and woodland on the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula. Grows on a variety of substrates in mallee heath and woodland.[8]

Conservation status

Moderately restricted distribution although well reserved and often locally common.[8]

References
  1. "Homoranthus homoranthoides". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  2. Craven, Lyndley A.; Jones, S. R. (1991). "A taxonomic review of Homoranthus and two new species of Darwinia (both Myrtaceae, Chamelaucieae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 4 (3): 513. doi:10.1071/SB9910513. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  3. "Homoranthus homoranthoides". Goldfields Revegetation Plant Catalogue. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  4. "Schuermannia homoranthoides". APNI. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  5. von Mueller, Ferdinand (1853). "Diagnoses et descriptiones plantarum novarum, quas in Nova Hollandia". Linnaea: Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde. 25: 387. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  6. "Homoranthus homoranthoides". APNI. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  7. Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 569.
  8. 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.


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