Sannantha crassa
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| Sannantha crassa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Sannantha |
| Species: | S. crassa |
| Binomial name | |
| Sannantha crassa | |
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Babingtonia crassa A.R.Bean | |
Sannantha crassa is a species in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and groups of 7 to 9 white flowers arranged in leaf axils.
Sannantha crassa is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) and has grey, scaly bark. Its leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped, 7–13 mm (0.28–0.51 in) long and 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) wide on a petiole 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long. The flowers are up to 7 mm (0.28 in) in diameter and arranged in leaf axils in groups of 7 to 9 on a peduncle 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) long. Each flower is on a pedicel 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long with 2 bracts at the base, but that fall off as the flowers develop. The floral tube is 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long, the sepal lobes 0.4 mm (0.016 in) long and thin. The petals are white, 2.0–2.8 mm (0.079–0.110 in) long and wide and there are 8 to 11 stamens. Flowering has been observed in January and February and the fruit is a bell-shaped to hemispherical capsule 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) in diameter.[2][3]