Homoranthus melanostictus is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

It has cylinder-shaped to flattened leaves with blackish oil dots and up to six yellow flowers arranged in leaf axils near the ends of the branchlets.

Homoranthus melanostictus is a prostrate, glabrous shrub to 0.1 m (0.3 ft) high with branches that arch upwards at the apex.

[2][3] Homoranthus melanostictus was first formally described in 1991 by Lyndley Craven and S.R Jones and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany.

[5]: 743 Widely spread in south-eastern Queensland from north west of Taroom to south of Tara.