''Kardomia odontocalyx'' is a flowering plant in the family

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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

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Taxonomy and naming

This species was described in 1997 by Anthony Bean">A.R.Bean Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants. Caree ...

as ''Babingtonia odontocalyx''. In 2007 Peter G.Wilson changed the name to ''Kardomia odontocalyx'' and the description was published in ''Australian Systematic Botany''. The binomial nomenclature, specific epithet (''odontocalyx'') 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.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15367536 Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Myrtaceae