Leptospermum glabrescens
N.A.Wakef. Smooth TeatreeShrub or tree to 6 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips. Leaves linear or elliptic to narrowly obovate, 8–13 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, glabrous (although sometimes hairs persisting along the margins); apex acute to shortly acuminate, flat to incurved; margins flat to incurved. Flowers c. 12 mm diam.; hypanthium c. 3 mm long, villous, sessile; sepals triangular, c. 2 mm long, rounded, villous on outer surface, persisting on fruit; petals 3.5–4.5 mm long, white; ovary 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit broadly hemispherical, persistent, 6–7 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes, valves woody; seeds c. 2 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
GipP, OtP, WaP, GGr, EGL, EGU, HSF, MonT, HFE. Victorian endemic. Confined to swampy shrublands and margins of watercourses from near Cape Conran to Mallacoota area, with apparent disjunct occurrences on higher ground at New Guinea Gap, c. 20 km north-east of Buchan.
Both Wakefield's (1955) and Willis's (1973) concept of L. glabrescens was much broader than that circumscribed by Thompson (1989). They included specimens from western Victoria and South Australia that are here treated as glabrous-leaved forms of L. lanigerum.
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.
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