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Baeckea gunniana Schauer
Family Myrtaceae
Common name: Alpine Baeckea

Baeckea gunniana Schauer APNI*

Description: Densely branched shrub to 1.5 m high, sometimes ± prostrate.

Leaves crowded, obovate to oblong, 2–4 mm long, ≤ 1 mm wide, ± channelled above, apex ± acute, base ± attenuate, margins entire; petiole ≤ 0.5 mm long.

Flowers solitary, pedicels c. 1 mm long. Sepals triangular, obtuse. Corolla 4–5 mm diam.; petals circular 1–1.8 mm long.Stamens 4–6, not opposite petals. Ovary 1-locular; style only slightly inset into ovary summit.

Capsule 1.5–2 mm diam.; seeds angular.


Habit
Photo D. Hardin

Flower
Photo D. Hardin

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: December to March.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows at high altitudes in heath and boggy sedgelands along streams; A.C.T. and Kosciusko districts.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
AVH map***

Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: A.R. Bean (1997)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
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