Baeckea latifolia
(Benth.) A.R.BeanErect or arching shrub, 1–3 m high. Leaves moderately crowded, elliptic or obovate, spreading widely, 6–9 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, more or less flat, not distinctly keeled below; apex acute or obtuse; base cuneate. Flowers solitary in axils, white, to 6 mm across; pedicel c. 3 mm long; bracteoles absent; hypanthium obconical; calyx-lobes obtuse, triangular; petals orbicular, c. 3 mm long; stamens 6–8, usually 8, filaments geniculate; ovary 2-celled, almost flat-topped. Fruit cup-like, c. 2.5 mm diam.; seeds angular. Flowers Dec.–Mar.
HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also NSW. Apparently confined to the southern mountain ranges (Lake Mountain, Baw Baw, Mount Buller) where found at altitudes above 1300 m. Grows at the edges of snow gum woodlands and grasslands, often near streams and bogs.
Previously treated as a variety of Baeckea utilis, and often difficult to distinguish from that species. Principally distinguished from B. utilis by the relatively wider and flatter leaves.
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Myrtaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 942–1044. Inkata Press, Melbourne.