Homoranthus elusus is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.

It is an shrub with linear leaves and with groups of up to four flowers in leaf axils.

[4] Homoranthus elusus was first formally described in 2011 by Lachlan Copeland, Lyndley Craven and Jeremy Bruhl from a specimen collected on Bluff Rock near Tenterfield in 2002 and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany.

[5] The specific epithet (elusus) is a Latin word meaning "avoid", "evade", "frustrate" or "baffle",[6] referring to the unsuccessful attempts by the authors to locate the species.

Briggs and Leigh (1996) conservation code 1E.