Homoranthus bebo

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Conservation status: Critically Endangered

• Homoranthus bebo is classified as "critically endangered" under the Australian Government EPBC Act of 1999

• It is known from a single population of at least 300 individuals

Etymology:   

• Homoranthus is derived from the Ancient Greek words homos meaning "same", "uniform", "like" or "similar"  and anthos meaning "flower"

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• Description

• Homoranthus bebo is a small shrub 0.05–0.2 m (2–8 in) high and 0.5–2 m (20–80 in) wide with branches lying close to the ground. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, shiny, lime-green, 3–7 mm (0.1–0.3 in) long, smooth, arranged in opposite pairs along a short stem with a short protruding point at the apex. The single lemon coloured five petal flowers are held erect in the leaf axils on a peduncle 0.7–1.7 mm (0.028–0.067 in) long. Flowering occurs mostly from September to November.[4]

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• Taxonomy and naming

• Homoranthus bebo was first formally described in 2011 by Lachlan Copeland, Lyndley Craven and Jeremy Bruhl from a specimen collected in the Bebo State forest (now the Dthinna Dthinnawan Nature Reserve) in 2001 and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany.[5] The specific epithet (bebo) refers to the name of the state forest where the type specimen was collected.[5]

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• Distribution and habitat

• Currently known from a single population in Dthinna Dthinnawan Nature Reserve (formerly Bebo State Forest)~20 km north-north east of Yetman New South Wales. This species grows in deep sandy soils over sandstone.[4]

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Sources of information:

• (2023)