Common name: Tall Phebalium
Leionema elatius (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson APNI* 
Description: Shrub 2–5 m high; stems glabrous or stellate-hairy.
Leaves narrow-spathulate to obovate, oblanceolate or oblong, 1.5–3.5 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, flat, minutely crenate towards apex, upper surface smooth and glossy, midrib prominent below.
Inflorescences terminal, cymose, scarcely exceeding the leaves; peduncle and pedicels slender. Calyx lobes fleshy, broad-triangular. Petals 3–4.5 mm long, pale yellow to white, glandular.
Cocci ± spreading, c. 4 mm long, wrinkled.
Flowering: Spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Chiefly on the ranges north from Bulahdelah.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by P.H. Weston & G.J. Harden
Taxon concept:
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| 1 | Leaves ± oblanceolate, 1.5–2 cm long, 3–5 mm wide; carpels with only a small sterile apical region; cocci without a beak. Shrub c. 2 m high; stems glandular-warty. Leaves with apex obtuse to rounded or rarely slightly retuse. Mature flower bud obovoid, c. 3 mm long. Ovary ± globose, compact, c. 1 mm long, finely wrinkled. Cocci slightly spreading. | subsp. elatius |
| Leaves ± obovate to oblanceolate, 2–3.5 cm long, 6–10 mm wide; carpels with the sterile apical region about a third of total length; cocci outwardly short-beaked. Shrub to 5 m high; stems almost smooth. Leaves with apex rounded and ± retuse. Mature flower bud ellipsoid, c. 4 mm long. Ovary ± hemispherical, c. 1.5 mm long, ± wrinkled towards apex. Cocci divaricate. | subsp. beckleri |
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