Kunzea phylicoides

Erect shrub to 3 m high; branch tips drooping; bark fibrous to corky; young stems pubescent. Leaves alternate, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 7–25 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, bright green, finely pubescent to glabrous, more or less flat; apex acute to acuminate; margins entire; petiole 0.5–1 mm long. Flowers white, 1, 2 or 3 in upper axils forming, leafy racemes; pedicels 3–6 mm long, with appressed hair; floral bracts absent; hypanthium with appressed hair or glabrescent, rugulose; sepals green, reddish at base, triangular, 1–1.5 mm long; petals orbicular, c. 1.5–2.5 mm diam.; stamens white, usually 25–35 sometimes many more, 1–4 mm long, some shorter than petals; style 1.5–2.5 mm long; ovary usually 3-celled. Fruit 2.5–4 mm long, 3–5 mm diam., not woody, dehiscent by terminal valves. Flowers Nov.–Feb.