Kardomia odontocalyx


Kardomia odontocalyx is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and grows in northern New South Wales and Queensland.

Description

Kardomia odontocalyx is a shrub to high with linear shaped leaves long, wide, rounded or notched at the apex, margins smooth, oil glands on the lower surface and on a petiole about long. The flowers are borne singly on a pedicel |peduncle long and the [bract">peduncle (botany)">peduncle long and the [bracteoles linear-shaped and about long. The corolla up to in diameter and the white petals about long. The fruit is a capsule about in diameter.

Taxonomy and naming

This species was described in 1997 by A.R.Bean as Babingtonia odontocalyx. In 2007 Peter G.Wilson changed the name to Kardomia odontocalyx and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany. The specific epithet means "toothed calyx".

Distribution and habitat

Kardomia odontocalyx has a restricted distribution in New South Wales near Torrington and Emmaville districts and Queensland on granite hills and outcrops in heath and sclerophyll scrub.