Shrub to 3 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips, fibrous and persistent on larger stems. Young stems with a narrow to broad flange near base of petiole. Leaves narrowly obovate to obovate, 8–17 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, flat, glabrous; apex obtuse or acute or emarginate, flat to incurved. Flowers 10–12 mm diam.; hypanthium 2.5–4 mm long, glabrous; pedicel to 1 mm long; sepals triangular, c. 2 mm long, glabrous on outer surface (occasionally with ciliate margins), deciduous; petals 3–4 mm long, white; ovary 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit persistent, broadly hemispherical, 5–7 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes, valves woody; seeds c. 2 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers Nov.–Feb.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW, ACT. Occurs along rocky banks of lowland watercourses and swamp margins, mainly in southern Victoria.
Source:
Lyne, A. (1996). Leptospermum. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 1009–1019. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
