Sannantha bidwillii
Sannantha bidwillii is a species in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to coastal Queensland in Australia. It is a shrub or tree with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of 3 white flowers.

Description
Sannantha bidwillii is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to  and has scaly to fibrous bark. It leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base,  long and  wide on a petiole  long. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils, usually in clusters of 3 on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel  long with 2 linear bracts at the base, but that fall off as the flowers develop. The floral tube is  long, the sepal lobes  long. The petals are  long and  wide and there are usually 7 to 10 stamens. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a hemispherical, capsule  in diameter.

Taxonomy
This species was by first formally described in 1999 Anthony Bean who gave it the name Babingtonia virgata in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens he collected in the Yurol State Forest near Cooroy in 1993. In 2007, Peter Gordon Wilson changed the name to Sannantha bidwillii in Australian Systematic Botany. The specific epithet (bidwillii) honours John Carne Bidwill, who collected the first known specimen of this species.

Distribution and habitat
Sannantha bidwillii grows in eucalypt forest in coastal lowland between Shoalwater Bay and Brisbane in Queensland.

Conservation status
This species is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science.

References

Flora of Queensland
bidwillii
Myrtales of Australia
Taxa named by Anthony Bean
Plants described in 1999