Baeckea trapeza

Baeckea trapeza is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers with eight to eleven stamens.

Description

Baeckea trapeza is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has grey, scaly bark. The leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and long on a petiole about long. The flowers are up to wide on a pedicel long with linear bracteoles long but that fall as the flowers open. The five sepals are long and more or less round and the petals are long. There are eight to eleven stamens opposite the sepals and the style is about long. Flowering has been observed in January and April and the fruit is conical to bell-shaped capsule in long and wide.

Taxonomy

Baeckea trapeza was first formally described in 1997 by Anthony Bean in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected on the Blackdown Tableland in 1996. The specific epithet means "a table", referring to the distribution of the species on the Blackdown Tableland.

Distribution and habitat

This baeckea grows in open forest at altitudes between and is confined to the Blackdown Tableland in Queensland.