Leptospermum emarginatum

Shrub to 1.5 m high; bark on smaller stems becoming rough, occasionally shedding in stringy strips. Young stems with a broad flange near base of petiole. Leaves narrowly obovate to obovate, 15–35 mm long, 3–7 mm wide, glabrous (although usually with a tuft of hairs at the apex); apex emarginate, incurved; margins flat to incurved. Flowers c. 9 mm diam.; hypanthium 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous; pedicel 3–5 mm long; sepals triangular, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous on outer surface (occasionally with ciliate margins), deciduous; petals c. 3 mm long, white; ovary 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit deciduous, broadly hemispherical, 4.5–6 mm diam., surface glabrous and wrinkled, valves somewhat woody; seeds c. 1.5 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers Dec.–Jan.