Sannantha

Sannantha is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae that are native to Australia and New Caledonia. Plants in the genus Sannantha are shrubs or trees with leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flowers usually arranged in small groups, the peduncles often 1.5–2 times as long as the pedicels and with seven to fourteen stamens. The fruit is a thin-walled capsule containing flattened, D-shaped seeds. Some species of Sannantha were previously included in the genus Babingtonia.^[2]

Sannantha
Sannantha leratii in the Palmengarten
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Subfamily:	Myrtoideae
Tribe:	Chamelaucieae
Genus:	Sannantha Peter G.Wilson[1]
Species
See list

The genus Sannantha was first formally described in 2007 by Peter Gordon Wilson in Australian Systematic Botany and the first species he described (the type species) was Sannantha virgata.^[3]

Species list

The following is a list of Sannantha species accepted by Plants of the World Online as at March 2022:^[4]

• Sannantha angusta (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (New South Wales, Queensland)
• Sannantha bidwillii (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (Queensland)
• Sannantha brachypoda (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (Queensland)
• Sannantha collina (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (New South Wales, Queensland)
• Sannantha crassa (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (New South Wales)
• Sannantha crenulata (F.Muell.) Peter G.Wilson - fern-leaf baeckea (Victoria)
• Sannantha cunninghamii (Schauer) Peter G.Wilson (New South Wales)
• Sannantha leratii (Schltr.) Peter G.Wilson (New Caledonia)
• Sannantha papillosa (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (Queensland)
• Sannantha pinifolia (Labill.) Peter G.Wilson (New Caledonia)
• Sannantha pluriflora (F.Muell.) Peter G.Wilson - tall baeckea (New South Wales, Victoria)
• Sannantha procera (J.W.Dawson) Peter G.Wilson (New Caledonia)
• Sannantha similis (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (New South Wales, Queensland)
• Sannantha tozerensis (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (Queensland)
• Sannantha virgata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Peter G.Wilson (New Caledonia)
• Sannantha whitei Peter G.Wilson (New South Wales)