Gossia floribunda

Gossia floribunda or Cape ironwood species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is a understorey plant growing to a height of 1 to 6 m (3 ft 3 in to 19 ft 8 in). Found in Cape York Peninsula Australia and also in New Guinea. Small white flowers form in abundance.^[1][2]

Cape ironwood
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Gossia
Species:	G. floribunda
Binomial name
Gossia floribunda (A.J.Scott) N.Snow & Guymer
Synonyms
Austromyrtus floribunda (A.J.Scott)Guymer Backhousea floribunda A.J.Scott

The species was first described as Backhousia floribunda in 1984 by Andrew John Scott.^[3][4] In 2003 Neil Snow, Gordon Guymer and G. Sawvel re-assigned to the genus, Gossia, to give its currently accepted name, Gossia floribunda.^[3][5]