Homoranthus tropicus
Homoranthus tropicus is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to tropical north Queensland. It is a shrub with curved, club-shaped leaves and white flowers in a corymb-like arrangement on the ends of branchlets. Description. "Homoranthus tropicus" is a shrub to high. The leaves are arranged opposite, club-shaped, curved, shortly pointed and tapering at the base to a short petiole long, wide and marked with tiny dots. The white flowers are on a pedicel long, the small bracts long, keeled and ending in a short point. The calyx tube, distinctly angled and  up to long, lobes long. The petals are broadly egg-shaped to almost round, margins smooth, about long and the style up to long. Flowering occurs sporadically throughout the year, primarily February to July and the fruit is a single seed retained in the calyx. Taxonomy and naming. "Homoranthus tropicus" was first formally described in 1981 by Norman Byrnes from a specimen he collected north of Laura in 1975 and the description was published in "Austrolbaileya".The specific epithet ("tropicus") means "tropical". Distribution and habitat. This species grows in northern Queensland in heath or shrubby woodland on shallow rocky soils  over sandstone. Conservation status. It has a restricted distribution and considered rare by Briggs and Leigh (1996) given a ROTAP conservation code of 2R.