Sannantha similis
Sannantha similis is a species in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and groups of three white flowers arranged in leaf axils.

Description
Sannantha similis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets more or less square in cross-section. Its leaves are narrowly lance-shaped,  long and  wide on a petiole  long. The flowers are  in diameter and arranged in leaf axils in groups of three on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with narrowly triangular bracteoles up to  long at the base. The floral tube is smooth, the sepal lobes up to about  long. The petals are white, broadly elliptic to round,  long and wide and there are 7 to 20 stamens. Flowering occurs from January to March, and the fruit is a capsule  in diameter.

Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1997 by Anthony Bean who gave it the name Babingtonia similis in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected near Springbrook in 1994. In 2007, Peter Gordon Wilson transferred the species to Sannantha as S. similis in Australian Systematic Botany. The specific epithet (similis) means "like" or "resembling", referring to this species' similarity to Babingtonia angusta, (now Sannantha angusta). 

This species was previously included in Baeckea virgata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Andrews.

Distribution and habitat
Sannantha similis grows in a range of habitats, including open forest and rainforest margins, from near Brisbane in south-eastern Queensland to near Newcastle in New South Wales.

References

Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
similis
Myrtales of Australia
Taxa named by Anthony Bean
Plants described in 1999